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title: An L-shaped figure can be seen in two ways: as two rectangles side b… — The area of a shape made of rectangles · tree and pragmatics
description: An L-shaped figure can be seen in two ways: as two rectangles side by side, or as a big rectangle with a corner cut away. A sentence of the lesson «The area of a shape made of rectangles» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The area of a shape made of rectangles, sentence 0

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An L-shaped figure can be seen in two ways: as two rectangles side by side, or as a big rectangle with a corner cut away.

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**What happens:** shape, see, cut away · **To what, where:** shaped figure, two ways, corner

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The area of a shape made of rectangles» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:148-composite-shapes.lesson:0
# text = An L-shaped figure can be seen in two ways: as two rectangles side by side, or as a big rectangle with a corner cut away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 148-composite-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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	L	l	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
5	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	rectangles	rectangle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	compound	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rectangle	rectangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **see** | can · passive |  | a shaped figure |  | two ways and rectangles side by side or a big rectangle with a corner |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cut away** | participle |  | a corner *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:148-composite-shapes.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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