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title: So the perimeter of a strip is two sides of the square and two width… — A square cut into equal strips · tree and pragmatics
description: So the perimeter of a strip is two sides of the square and two widths: if there are 3 strips, the half-perimeter of a strip is one side and one third of a side, that is 4 thirds of the side. Who acts: perimeter, 3 strips, half perimeter, that. A sentence of the lesson «A square cut into equal strips
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# A square cut into equal strips, sentence 1

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So the perimeter of a strip is two sides of the square and two widths: if there are 3 strips, the half-perimeter of a strip is one side and one third of a side, that is 4 thirds of the side.

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**Who acts:** perimeter, 3 strips, half perimeter, that · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** two sides, one side, 4 thirds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A square cut into equal strips» 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, 3 strips, half perimeter, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:150-square-cut-into-strips.lesson:1
# text = So the perimeter of a strip is two sides of the square and two widths: if there are 3 strips, the half-perimeter of a strip is one side and one third of a side, that is 4 thirds of the side.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 150-square-cut-into-strips.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	perimeter	perimeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	widths	width	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	perimeter	perimeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 strip | two sides and two widths |  |  |  | of the square | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | 3 strips |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the half perimeter of a strip | one side and one third of a side and 4 thirds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that | 4 thirds |  |  |  | of the side | 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:150-square-cut-into-strips.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 ×1, 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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