Chickens and rabbits: heads and legs, sentence 0

Suppose every animal were a chicken: then there would be 2 legs for each head.

Who acts: you, animal · What happens: suppose, be · To what, where: chicken, 2 legs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens and rabbits: heads and legs» 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 (you, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chicken	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chicken	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chicken	det
6	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Suppose	ccomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 legs	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 be	advmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 be	expl
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 legs	cop
12	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 legs	nummod
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Suppose	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 head	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 legs	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	every animal	a chicken		tree rules
3	is a	infinitive		2 legs	for each head	tree rules

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.

Licence: CC 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:166-chickens-and-rabbits.lesson:0.

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 ×3. 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.

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