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title: A rectangle 6 cm long and 4 cm wide holds 4 rows of 6 squares: 6 × 4… — The area of a rectangle in square units · tree and pragmatics
description: A rectangle 6 cm long and 4 cm wide holds 4 rows of 6 squares: 6 × 4 = 24 square centimeters. Who acts: rectangle. A sentence of the lesson «The area of a rectangle in square units» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The area of a rectangle in square units, sentence 2

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A rectangle 6 cm long and 4 cm wide holds 4 rows of 6 squares: 6 × 4 = 24 square centimeters.

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**Who acts:** rectangle · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** 4 rows

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The area of a rectangle in square units» of the lessons 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 (rectangle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:106-area-of-a-rectangle.lesson:2
# text = A rectangle 6 cm long and 4 cm wide holds 4 rows of 6 squares: 6 × 4 = 24 square centimeters.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 106-area-of-a-rectangle.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rectangle	rectangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
18	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	21	case	_	_
21	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
22	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	centimeters	centimeter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | a rectangle and 6 24 square centimeters | 4 rows of 6 squares |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=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:lessons:106-area-of-a-rectangle.lesson:2`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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