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title: The cost is the price times the quantity: 4 chairs at 136 dollars ea… — Multiplying by a one-digit number · tree and pragmatics
description: The cost is the price times the quantity: 4 chairs at 136 dollars each cost 136 × 4 = 544 dollars. Who acts: cost. A sentence of the lesson «Multiplying by a one-digit number» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Multiplying by a one-digit number, sentence 2

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The cost is the price times the quantity: 4 chairs at 136 dollars each cost 136 × 4 = 544 dollars.

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**Who acts:** cost · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** quantity

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Multiplying by a one-digit number» 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 (cost), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:142-multiply-by-one-digit.lesson:2
# text = The cost is the price times the quantity: 4 chairs at 136 dollars each cost 136 × 4 = 544 dollars.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 142-multiply-by-one-digit.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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	136	136	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	136	136	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	19	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:dep
19	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	21	dep	_	_
21	544	544	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
22	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | the cost | the quantity |  |  | time |  | tree rules |

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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:142-multiply-by-one-digit.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 ×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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