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title: Cows have 4 legs and chickens 2. — Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cows have 4 legs and chickens 2. Who acts: Cows. A sentence of the lesson «Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wheels» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wheels, sentence 0

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Cows have 4 legs and chickens 2.

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**Who acts:** Cows · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** 4 legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wheels» 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 (Cows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:210-counting-back-from-legs-and-wheels.lesson:0
# text = Cows have 4 legs and chickens 2.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 210-counting-back-from-legs-and-wheels.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): no change
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	dep	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Cows | 4 legs and chickens |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |

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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:210-counting-back-from-legs-and-wheels.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): no change. **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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