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title: The perimeter of a shape is the length all the way round it: add the… — Perimeter: all the way round a triangle · tree and pragmatics
description: The perimeter of a shape is the length all the way round it: add the lengths of all its sides. Who acts: perimeter. A sentence of the lesson «Perimeter: all the way round a triangle» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Perimeter: all the way round a triangle, sentence 0

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The perimeter of a shape is the length all the way round it: add the lengths of all its sides.

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**Who acts:** perimeter · **What happens:** be, add · **To what, where:** length, lengths

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Perimeter: all the way round a triangle» 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 (perimeter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:136-perimeter-of-a-triangle.lesson:0
# text = The perimeter of a shape is the length all the way round it: add the lengths of all its sides.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 136-perimeter-of-a-triangle.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	perimeter	perimeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	round	round	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lengths	length	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | the perimeter of a shape | the length |  |  |  | all way *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | the lengths of perimeter's sides |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent length=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:136-perimeter-of-a-triangle.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): R8-pos-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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