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title: So every table and every chair gives 4 legs: count the pieces of fur… — Legs on tables and chairs · tree and pragmatics
description: So every table and every chair gives 4 legs: count the pieces of furniture, then take 4 for each. Who acts: table. A sentence of the lesson «Legs on tables and chairs» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legs on tables and chairs, sentence 1

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So every table and every chair gives 4 legs: count the pieces of furniture, then take 4 for each.

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**Who acts:** table · **What happens:** give, count, take · **To what, where:** 4 legs, pieces, 4

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Legs on tables and chairs» 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 (table), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:216-legs-on-tables-and-chairs.lesson:1
# text = So every table and every chair gives 4 legs: count the pieces of furniture, then take 4 for each.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 216-legs-on-tables-and-chairs.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	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **give** | present | every table and every chair | 4 legs |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | infinitive |  | the pieces of furniture |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | 4 |  |  | then | for each | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent 4=Theme for each=Beneficiary |

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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:216-legs-on-tables-and-chairs.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): 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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