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title: Its area is the big rectangle's area minus the missing corner's area. — The area of an L-shape · tree and pragmatics
description: Its area is the big rectangle's area minus the missing corner's area. Who acts: area. A sentence of the lesson «The area of an L-shape» 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 an L-shape, sentence 1

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Its area is the big rectangle's area minus the missing corner's area.

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

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The area of an L-shape» 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 (area), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:197-area-of-an-l-shape.lesson:1
# text = Its area is the big rectangle's area minus the missing corner's area.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 197-area-of-an-l-shape.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): no change
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rectangle	rectangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	minus	minus	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | corner's area | the big rectangle's area |  |  |  | minus the missing corner's area | 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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**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): no change. **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.

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