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title: People and animals together — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «People and animals together», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A person walks on 2 legs, while a dog, a cat or a sheep walks on 4.
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# People and animals together

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Lesson 209 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/209-people-and-animals-together/0/) — A person walks on 2 legs, while a dog, a cat or a sheep walks on 4.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/209-people-and-animals-together/1/) — Do not forget the people when you count legs: a dog walker with 4 dogs makes 2 + 4 × 4 = 18 legs.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/209-people-and-animals-together/2/) — When someone says «me and my 5 friends», that is 6 people. 6 people and 2 dogs: 6 × 2 + 2 × 4 = 12 + 8 = 20 legs.

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