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title: Dividing tells how many equal groups there are, or how many go into… — Dividing bigger numbers in stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Dividing tells how many equal groups there are, or how many go into each group, when the total is large. Who acts: Dividing, many equal groups, many, total. A sentence of the lesson «Dividing bigger numbers in stories» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Dividing bigger numbers in stories, sentence 0

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Dividing tells how many equal groups there are, or how many go into each group, when the total is large.

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**Who acts:** Dividing, many equal groups, many, total · **What happens:** tell, be, go · **To what, where:** group · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dividing 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 (Dividing, many equal groups, many, total), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:162-dividing-big-numbers.lesson:0
# text = Dividing tells how many equal groups there are, or how many go into each group, when the total is large.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 162-dividing-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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Dividing	dividing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Dividing |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **does** | present | many equal groups |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | many |  |  | each group |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into group=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | the total |  |  |  |  | large *property* | 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:162-dividing-big-numbers.lesson:0`.

**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): 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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