Counting back from heads and legs, cycles and wheels, sentence 2

Each cow brings 2 more legs than a chicken, so the extra legs divided by 2 give the cows: 10 heads and 28 legs, 10 × 2 = 20, 28 − 20 = 8, 8 ÷ 2 = 4 cows.

Who acts: cow, extra legs · What happens: bring, divide, give · To what, where: 2 more legs, extra legs, cows

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 (cow, extra legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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