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title: Divide by the number above the line to get one part, then multiply b… — The whole from its fraction · tree and pragmatics
description: Divide by the number above the line to get one part, then multiply by the number below the line to get all the parts. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «The whole from its fraction» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The whole from its fraction, sentence 1

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Divide by the number above the line to get one part, then multiply by the number below the line to get all the parts.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** divide, get, multiply · **To what, where:** one part, parts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The whole from its fraction» 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:152-the-whole-from-a-fraction.lesson:1
# text = Divide by the number above the line to get one part, then multiply by the number below the line to get all the parts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 152-the-whole-from-a-fraction.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	Divide	divide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	below	below	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **divide** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the number above the line | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by number=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one part |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus |
| 3 | **multiply** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then | by the number below the line | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by number=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | all parts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus |

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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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**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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