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title: Each cow brings 2 more legs than a chicken, so the extra legs divide… — Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each cow brings 2 more legs than a chicken, so the extra legs divided by 2 give the cows: 10 heads and 28 legs, 10 × 2 = 20, 28 − 20 = 8, 8 ÷ 2 = 4 cows. Who acts: cow, extra legs. A sentence of the lesson «Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wheels» of the lessons course of Mova's primary
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# Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wheels, sentence 2

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Each cow brings 2 more legs than a chicken, so the extra legs divided by 2 give the cows: 10 heads and 28 legs, 10 × 2 = 20, 28 − 20 = 8, 8 ÷ 2 = 4 cows.

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**Who acts:** cow, extra legs · **What happens:** bring, divide, give · **To what, where:** 2 more legs, extra legs, cows

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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 (cow, extra 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:2
# text = Each cow brings 2 more legs than a chicken, so the extra legs divided by 2 give the cows: 10 heads and 28 legs, 10 × 2 = 20, 28 − 20 = 8, 8 ÷ 2 = 4 cows.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
30	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	_
31	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	32	dep	_	_
32	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	−	−	SYM	SYM	Number=Plur	23	appos	_	_
36	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	nmod	_	_
37	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	38	dep	_	_
38	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nmod	_	_
41	÷	÷	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	flat	_	_
43	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	45	dep	_	_
44	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | each cow | 2 more legs |  |  |  | than a chicken | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |
| 2 | **divide** | participle |  | the extra legs *not said here* |  |  |  | by 2 | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by 2=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **give** | present | the extra legs | the cows |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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:2`.

**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): 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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