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title: To count the sides of many shapes, multiply each kind by its number… — Sides and corners of many shapes · tree and pragmatics
description: To count the sides of many shapes, multiply each kind by its number of sides and add: 2 triangles and 3 squares have 2 × 3 + 3 × 4 = 18 sides. Who acts: you, 2 triangles. A sentence of the lesson «Sides and corners of many shapes» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Sides and corners of many shapes, sentence 1

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To count the sides of many shapes, multiply each kind by its number of sides and add: 2 triangles and 3 squares have 2 × 3 + 3 × 4 = 18 sides.

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**Who acts:** you, 2 triangles · **What happens:** count, multiply, add, have · **To what, where:** sides, kind, 2 ×

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sides and corners of many shapes» 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 (you, 2 triangles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:108-sides-and-corners-of-shapes.lesson:1
# text = To count the sides of many shapes, multiply each kind by its number of sides and add: 2 triangles and 3 squares have 2 × 3 + 3 × 4 = 18 sides.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 108-sides-and-corners-of-shapes.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 ×3
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	triangles	triangle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	_
29	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
31	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	flat	_	_
33	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	35	cc	_	_
34	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **count** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the sides of many shapes |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
| 2 | **multiply** | imperative | you *not said here* | each kind |  |  |  | by shape's number of sides | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent kind=Theme by number=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present | 2 triangles and 3 squares | 2 × and × = 18 sides |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ×=Patient |

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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:108-sides-and-corners-of-shapes.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): R5-strong ×3. **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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