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title: Every bird has 2 legs: chickens, ducks, penguins, owls and parrots s… — Legs on birds, and animals with none · tree and pragmatics
description: Every bird has 2 legs: chickens, ducks, penguins, owls and parrots stand on 2 legs. Who acts: bird, chickens. A sentence of the lesson «Legs on birds, and animals with none» 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 birds, and animals with none, sentence 0

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Every bird has 2 legs: chickens, ducks, penguins, owls and parrots stand on 2 legs.

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**Who acts:** bird, chickens · **What happens:** have, stand · **To what, where:** 2 legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Legs on birds, and animals with none» 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 (bird, chickens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:203-legs-on-birds-and-animals-with-none.lesson:0
# text = Every bird has 2 legs: chickens, ducks, penguins, owls and parrots stand on 2 legs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 203-legs-on-birds-and-animals-with-none.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	parrots	parrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
16	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | every bird | 2 legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | present | chickens and ducks and penguins and owls and parrots |  |  | 2 legs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |

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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:203-legs-on-birds-and-animals-with-none.lesson:0`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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