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title: If every head belonged to a chicken, there would be 2 legs per head. — Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: If every head belonged to a chicken, there would be 2 legs per head. Who acts: head, 2 legs. 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 1

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If every head belonged to a chicken, there would be 2 legs per head.

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**Who acts:** head, 2 legs · **What happens:** belong, be

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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 (head, 2 legs), 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:1
# text = If every head belonged to a chicken, there would be 2 legs per head.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
14	per	per	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **belong** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | every head |  |  |  |  | to a chicken | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | would | 2 legs per head |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:1`.

**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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