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title: A square has four equal sides, so one side is the perimeter divided… — A missing side from the perimeter or the area · tree and pragmatics
description: A square has four equal sides, so one side is the perimeter divided by 4: a perimeter of 28 cm gives 28 ÷ 4 = 7 cm. Who acts: square, one side, perimeter. A sentence of the lesson «A missing side from the perimeter or the area» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# A missing side from the perimeter or the area, sentence 0

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A square has four equal sides, so one side is the perimeter divided by 4: a perimeter of 28 cm gives 28 ÷ 4 = 7 cm.

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**Who acts:** square, one side, perimeter · **What happens:** have, be, divide, give · **To what, where:** four equal sides, perimeter, 28 4 7 cm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A missing side from the perimeter or the area» 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 (square, one side, perimeter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:107-side-from-perimeter-or-area.lesson:0
# text = A square has four equal sides, so one side is the perimeter divided by 4: a perimeter of 28 cm gives 28 ÷ 4 = 7 cm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 107-side-from-perimeter-or-area.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	perimeter	perimeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	perimeter	perimeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
24	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nummod
25	÷	÷	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
27	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	28	case	_	_
28	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod
29	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | a square | four equal sides |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | one side | the perimeter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **divide** | participle |  | the perimeter *not said here* |  |  |  | by 4 | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 4=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | a perimeter of 28 cm | 28 4 7 cm |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cm=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:107-side-from-perimeter-or-area.lesson:0`.

**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 ×2. **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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