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title: When there are several equal groups, multiply the number of groups b… — The times table in stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When there are several equal groups, multiply the number of groups by the number in one group. Who acts: several equal groups, you. A sentence of the lesson «The times table in stories» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The times table in stories, sentence 0

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When there are several equal groups, multiply the number of groups by the number in one group.

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**Who acts:** several equal groups, you · **What happens:** be, multiply · **To what, where:** number

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The times table in stories» 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 (several equal groups, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:131-times-table-stories.lesson:0
# text = When there are several equal groups, multiply the number of groups by the number in one group.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 131-times-table-stories.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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | several equal groups |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **multiply** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of groups |  |  |  | by the number in one group | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent number=Theme by number=Co-Theme |

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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:131-times-table-stories.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): 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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