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title: To go all the way around a square, walk along all 4 sides: the lengt… — Fence around a square · tree and pragmatics
description: To go all the way around a square, walk along all 4 sides: the length around is 4 times one side. Who acts: length. A sentence of the lesson «Fence around a square» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fence around a square, sentence 1

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To go all the way around a square, walk along all 4 sides: the length around is 4 times one side.

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**Who acts:** length · **What happens:** go, walk, be · **To what, where:** way, square, 4 sides, 4 times

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fence around a square» 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 (length), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:218-fence-around-a-square.lesson:1
# text = To go all the way around a square, walk along all 4 sides: the length around is 4 times one side.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 218-fence-around-a-square.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	along	along	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **go** | to-infinitive |  | all way |  | a square |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around square=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **walk** | infinitive |  | all 4 sides |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the length | 4 times and one side |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:218-fence-around-a-square.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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