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title: A person walks on 2 legs, while a dog, a cat or a sheep walks on 4. — People and animals together · tree and pragmatics
description: A person walks on 2 legs, while a dog, a cat or a sheep walks on 4. Who acts: person, dog. A sentence of the lesson «People and animals together» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# People and animals together, sentence 0

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A person walks on 2 legs, while a dog, a cat or a sheep walks on 4.

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**Who acts:** person, dog · **What happens:** walk · **To what, where:** 2 legs, 4

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This is a sentence of the lesson «People and animals together» 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 (person, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:209-people-and-animals-together.lesson:0
# text = A person walks on 2 legs, while a dog, a cat or a sheep walks on 4.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 209-people-and-animals-together.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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
17	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	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 | **walk** | present | a person |  |  | 2 legs |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
| 2 | **walk** | present | a dog and a cat or a sheep |  |  | 4 |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on 4=Trajectory |

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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:209-people-and-animals-together.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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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