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title: Legs on insects and spiders — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Legs on insects and spiders», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every insect has 6 legs: ants, beetles, bees, ladybirds and grasshoppers all walk on 6 legs.
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# Legs on insects and spiders

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Lesson 201 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 3 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/201-legs-on-insects-and-spiders/0/) — Every insect has 6 legs: ants, beetles, bees, ladybirds and grasshoppers all walk on 6 legs.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/201-legs-on-insects-and-spiders/1/) — A spider is not an insect: it has 8 legs.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/201-legs-on-insects-and-spiders/2/) — To count the legs, multiply each kind by its legs and add: 3 spiders and 4 beetles have 3 × 8 + 4 × 6 = 24 + 24 = 48 legs.

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