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title: 10 heads and 28 legs: as chickens, 10 heads give 20 legs; there are… — Chickens and rabbits: heads and legs · tree and pragmatics
description: 10 heads and 28 legs: as chickens, 10 heads give 20 legs; there are 8 legs more, and each rabbit adds 2, so there are 8 / 2 = 4 rabbits. Who acts: 10 heads, 8 legs, rabbit, 2 4 rabbits. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens and rabbits: heads and legs» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Chickens and rabbits: heads and legs, sentence 2

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10 heads and 28 legs: as chickens, 10 heads give 20 legs; there are 8 legs more, and each rabbit adds 2, so there are 8 / 2 = 4 rabbits.

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**Who acts:** 10 heads, 8 legs, rabbit, 2 4 rabbits · **What happens:** give, be, add · **To what, where:** 20 legs, 2

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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 (10 heads, 8 legs, rabbit, 2 4 rabbits), 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:2
# text = 10 heads and 28 legs: as chickens, 10 heads give 20 legs; there are 8 legs more, and each rabbit adds 2, so there are 8 / 2 = 4 rabbits.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
12	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
18	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	compound	_	_
32	/	/	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
34	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	35	punct	_	_
35	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **give** | present | 10 heads and 28 legs | 20 legs |  |  |  | as chickens | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | 8 legs |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | each rabbit | 2 |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Patient |
| 4 | **does** | present | 2 4 rabbits |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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