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title: Or cut the L into two rectangles, find both areas and add them: the… — The area of an L-shape · tree and pragmatics
description: Or cut the L into two rectangles, find both areas and add them: the answer is the same. Who acts: you, answer. 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 3

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Or cut the L into two rectangles, find both areas and add them: the answer is the same.

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**Who acts:** you, answer · **What happens:** cut, find, add, be · **To what, where:** L, two rectangles, areas, metres

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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 (you, answer), 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:3
# text = Or cut the L into two rectangles, find both areas and add them: the answer is the same.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	L	l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	rectangles	rectangle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	_	11	det:predet	_	_
11	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | the L |  | two rectangles |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent l=Material into rectangle=Product |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive | you *not said here* | both areas |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Topic |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | metres *= metre* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | the answer |  |  |  |  | same *property* | 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:197-area-of-an-l-shape.lesson:3`.

**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): 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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