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title: Carve a roast chicken and you can count two legs, two wings and two… — Where meat and fish come from, told honestly · tree and pragmatics
description: Carve a roast chicken and you can count two legs, two wings and two breasts, each a different muscle. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Where meat and fish come from, told honestly, sentence 5

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Carve a roast chicken and you can count two legs, two wings and two breasts, each a different muscle.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** carve, count · **To what, where:** roast chicken, two legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:5
# text = Carve a roast chicken and you can count two legs, two wings and two breasts, each a different muscle.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Carve	carve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | imperative | you *not said here* | a roast chicken |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | can | you | two legs and two wings and two breasts |  |  |  | each different muscle *obl* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly.lesson:5`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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