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title: 2 giraffes and 3 lions are 5 animals, so they have 5 × 4 = 20 legs. — Legs on four-legged animals · tree and pragmatics
description: 2 giraffes and 3 lions are 5 animals, so they have 5 × 4 = 20 legs. Who acts: 2 giraffes, giraffes. A sentence of the lesson «Legs on four-legged animals» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legs on four-legged animals, sentence 2

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2 giraffes and 3 lions are 5 animals, so they have 5 × 4 = 20 legs.

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**Who acts:** 2 giraffes, giraffes · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** 5 animals, 4 20 legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Legs on four-legged animals» 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 (2 giraffes, giraffes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:202-legs-on-four-legged-animals.lesson:2
# text = 2 giraffes and 3 lions are 5 animals, so they have 5 × 4 = 20 legs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 202-legs-on-four-legged-animals.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	17	case	_	_
17	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
19	.	.	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 | 2 giraffes and 3 lions | 5 animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | giraffes *= giraffe* | 4 20 legs |  |  |  |  | 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:202-legs-on-four-legged-animals.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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