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title: The area of a rectangle is length × width, so the width is the area… — A missing side from the perimeter or the area · tree and pragmatics
description: The area of a rectangle is length × width, so the width is the area divided by the length: 24 square meters and a length of 6 m give 24 ÷ 6 = 4 m. Who acts: area, width, 24 square meters. A sentence of the lesson «A missing side from the perimeter or the area» of the lessons course of Mova's primary
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# A missing side from the perimeter or the area, sentence 1

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The area of a rectangle is length × width, so the width is the area divided by the length: 24 square meters and a length of 6 m give 24 ÷ 6 = 4 m.

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**Who acts:** area, width, 24 square meters · **What happens:** be, divide, give · **To what, where:** length, area, 6 m.

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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 (area, width, 24 square meters), 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:1
# text = The area of a rectangle is length × width, so the width is the area divided by the length: 24 square meters and a length of 6 m give 24 ÷ 6 = 4 m.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rectangle	rectangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	9	case	_	_
9	width	width	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	width	width	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
17	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	meters	meter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	m	m	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
32	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	÷	÷	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
35	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	36	case	_	_
36	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nmod	_	_
37	m.	m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
```

## 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 | **is a** | present | the area of a rectangle | length |  |  |  | × width | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the width | the area |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **divide** | participle |  | the area *not said here* |  |  |  | by the length | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by length=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | 24 square meters and a length of 6 m | 6 m. |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ÷=Recipient m.=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:1`.

**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): 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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