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title: Check by multiplying back: 144 × 4 = 576. — Dividing by a one-digit number: how many can be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Check by multiplying back: 144 × 4 = 576. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Dividing by a one-digit number: how many can be bought» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dividing by a one-digit number: how many can be bought, sentence 3

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Check by multiplying back: 144 × 4 = 576.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** check, multiply back

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dividing by a one-digit number: how many can be bought» 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:143-how-many-can-be-bought.lesson:3
# text = Check by multiplying back: 144 × 4 = 576.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 143-how-many-can-be-bought.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	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	multiplying	multiply	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	144	144	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	parataxis	_	_
7	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	8	case	_	_
8	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	6	punct	_	_
10	576	576	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
11	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **multiply back** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:143-how-many-can-be-bought.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): 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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