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title: Suppose every animal were a chicken: then there would be 2 legs for… — Chickens and rabbits: heads and legs · tree and pragmatics
description: Suppose every animal were a chicken: then there would be 2 legs for each head. Who acts: you, animal. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens and rabbits: heads and legs» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Chickens and rabbits: heads and legs, sentence 0

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Suppose every animal were a chicken: then there would be 2 legs for each head.

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**Who acts:** you, animal · **What happens:** suppose, be · **To what, where:** chicken, 2 legs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens and rabbits: heads and legs» 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, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:166-chickens-and-rabbits.lesson:0
# text = Suppose every animal were a chicken: then there would be 2 legs for each head.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 166-chickens-and-rabbits.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	Suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:expl
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:aux
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **suppose** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | every animal | a chicken |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive |  | 2 legs |  |  |  | for each head | 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:166-chickens-and-rabbits.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): 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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