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title: A shape with 4 sides is not always a square: rectangles and kites ha… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics
description: A shape with 4 sides is not always a square: rectangles and kites have 4 sides too. Who acts: shape, rectangles. A sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "If... then..." and its traps, sentence 14

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A shape with 4 sides is not always a square: rectangles and kites have 4 sides too.

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**Who acts:** shape, rectangles · **What happens:** not be, have · **To what, where:** square, 4 sides

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» of the world 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 (shape, rectangles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:14
# text = A shape with 4 sides is not always a square: rectangles and kites have 4 sides too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 184-if-then-and-its-traps.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	rectangles	rectangle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	kites	kite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **is a** | present | a shape with 4 sides | a square |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | rectangles and kites | 4 sides |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:14`.

**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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