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title: Check a division by multiplying back: 4 × 3 = 12. — Division: sharing and grouping · tree and pragmatics
description: Check a division by multiplying back: 4 × 3 = 12. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Division: sharing and grouping» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Division: sharing and grouping, sentence 3

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Check a division by multiplying back: 4 × 3 = 12.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** check, multiply back · **To what, where:** division, 4

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Division: sharing and grouping» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:132-sharing-and-grouping.lesson:3
# text = Check a division by multiplying back: 4 × 3 = 12.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 132-sharing-and-grouping.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	multiplying	multiply	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
9	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	10	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
10	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
11	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	12	case	_	_
12	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | a division |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent division=Theme |
| 2 | **multiply back** | gerund | you *not said here* | 4 |  |  |  | × 3 = 12 | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 4=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:132-sharing-and-grouping.lesson:3`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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