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title: If instead the length is 3 cm more than the width: 13 - 3 = 10, 10 ÷… — A rectangle's area from its perimeter · tree and pragmatics
description: If instead the length is 3 cm more than the width: 13 - 3 = 10, 10 ÷ 2 = 5 is the width, 5 + 3 = 8 the length. Who acts: length. A sentence of the lesson «A rectangle's area from its perimeter» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# A rectangle's area from its perimeter, sentence 2

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If instead the length is 3 cm more than the width: 13 - 3 = 10, 10 ÷ 2 = 5 is the width, 5 + 3 = 8 the length.

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**Who acts:** length · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** width

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A rectangle's area from its perimeter» 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 (length), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:146-area-from-perimeter.lesson:2
# text = If instead the length is 3 cm more than the width: 13 - 3 = 10, 10 ÷ 2 = 5 is the width, 5 + 3 = 8 the length.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 146-area-from-perimeter.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	advcl	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	width	width	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	_
14	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	17	case	_	_
17	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
20	÷	÷	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	case	_	_
23	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	width	width	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	appos	_	_
29	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod
30	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
31	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	32	case	_	_
32	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	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 condition, not said to happen* | present | the length |  |  |  |  | than the width; 3 cm *obl:unmarked*; instead, more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the width |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:146-area-from-perimeter.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): 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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