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title: It does not matter whether we say «4 groups of 6» or «6 in each of 4… — The times table in stories · tree and pragmatics
description: It does not matter whether we say «4 groups of 6» or «6 in each of 4 groups»: the answer is 4 × 6. Who acts: we. 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 2

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It does not matter whether we say «4 groups of 6» or «6 in each of 4 groups»: the answer is 4 × 6.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** not matter, say · **To what, where:** number, 4 groups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we), 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:2
# text = It does not matter whether we say «4 groups of 6» or «6 in each of 4 groups»: the answer is 4 × 6.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	10	conj	_	_
29	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	flat	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support |  | number |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | we | 4 groups of 6 |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent group=Topic |

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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:2`.

**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 ×2. **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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