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title: Cycles work the same way: a bicycle has 2 wheels and a tricycle 3. 7… — Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cycles work the same way: a bicycle has 2 wheels and a tricycle 3. 7 cycles with 17 wheels: 17 − 7 × 2 = 3 tricycles. Who acts: Cycles, bicycle. 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
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# Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wheels, sentence 3

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Cycles work the same way: a bicycle has 2 wheels and a tricycle 3. 7 cycles with 17 wheels: 17 − 7 × 2 = 3 tricycles.

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**Who acts:** Cycles, bicycle · **What happens:** work, have · **To what, where:** same way, 2 wheels

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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 (Cycles, bicycle), 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:3
# text = Cycles work the same way: a bicycle has 2 wheels and a tricycle 3. 7 cycles with 17 wheels: 17 − 7 × 2 = 3 tricycles.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Cycles	cycle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tricycle	tricycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
17	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	cycles	cycle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
24	−	−	SYM	SYM	_	25	dep	_	_
25	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
26	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	23	dep	_	_
27	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	flat	_	_
28	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	29	dep	_	_
29	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
30	tricycles	tricycle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **work** | present | Cycles | the same way |  |  |  | 7 cycles with 17 wheels and 17 3 tricycles *obl* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material |
| 2 | **have** | present | a bicycle | 2 wheels |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=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:3`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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