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title: Legs on four-legged animals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Legs on four-legged animals», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Dogs, cats, mice, lions, giraffes, horses, tortoises and lizards each walk on 4 legs.
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# Legs on four-legged animals

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Lesson 202 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/202-legs-on-four-legged-animals/0/) — Dogs, cats, mice, lions, giraffes, horses, tortoises and lizards each walk on 4 legs.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/202-legs-on-four-legged-animals/1/) — When all the animals have 4 legs, add the animals first and then multiply by 4.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/202-legs-on-four-legged-animals/2/) — 2 giraffes and 3 lions are 5 animals, so they have 5 × 4 = 20 legs.

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