--- title: Each time one chicken becomes a rabbit, the chickens lose 2 legs and… — Exam 3: heads, and a difference of legs · tree and pragmatics description: Each time one chicken becomes a rabbit, the chickens lose 2 legs and the rabbits gain 4, so the difference moves by 2 + 4 = 6. Who acts: one chicken, chickens, rabbits, difference. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one chicken, chickens, rabbits, difference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:200-heads-and-a-difference-of-legs.lesson:2 # text = Each time one chicken becomes a rabbit, the chickens lose 2 legs and the rabbits gain 4, so the difference moves by 2 + 4 = 6. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 200-heads-and-a-difference-of-legs.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 gain gain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 22 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 24 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 26 + + SYM SYM _ 25 flat _ _ 27 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 flat _ _ 28 = = SYM SYM _ 29 flat _ _ 29 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | present | one chicken | a rabbit | | | time | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **lose** | present | the chickens | 2 legs | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality | | 3 | **gain** | present | the rabbits | 4 | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=Theme | | 4 | **move** | present | the difference | | | | | by 2 = 6 | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by 6=Trajectory | 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. **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:200-heads-and-a-difference-of-legs.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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Exam 3: heads, and a difference of legs, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/200-heads-and-a-difference-of-legs/1/) - next →: [Exam 3: heads, and a difference of legs, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/200-heads-and-a-difference-of-legs/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/200-heads-and-a-difference-of-legs/)