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title: Split one number into tens and ones: 23 boxes of 34 pens is 20 × 34… — Multiplying bigger numbers in stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Split one number into tens and ones: 23 boxes of 34 pens is 20 × 34 + 3 × 34 = 680 + 102 = 782 pens. Who acts: you, 23 boxes. A sentence of the lesson «Multiplying bigger numbers 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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# Multiplying bigger numbers in stories, sentence 1

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Split one number into tens and ones: 23 boxes of 34 pens is 20 × 34 + 3 × 34 = 680 + 102 = 782 pens.

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**Who acts:** you, 23 boxes · **What happens:** split, be · **To what, where:** one number, tens, × 782 pens

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Multiplying bigger numbers 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 (you, 23 boxes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:161-multiplying-big-numbers.lesson:1
# text = Split one number into tens and ones: 23 boxes of 34 pens is 20 × 34 + 3 × 34 = 680 + 102 = 782 pens.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 161-multiplying-big-numbers.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Split	split	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
9	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	pens	pen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
15	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
17	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
20	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	_
22	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	case	_	_
23	680	680	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
24	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	102	102	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
26	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	27	case	_	_
27	782	782	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
28	pens	pen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **split** | imperative | you *not said here* | one number |  |  |  | into tens and ones *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent number=Patient into ten=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 23 boxes of 34 pens | × 782 pens |  |  |  |  | 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:161-multiplying-big-numbers.lesson:1`.

**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, R6-punct-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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