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title: Who am I? Number riddles — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Who am I? Number riddles», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A riddle about a two-digit number gives facts about its digits; find the digits from the facts and put them together.
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# Who am I? Number riddles

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Lesson 190 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 4 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/190-number-riddles/0/) — A riddle about a two-digit number gives facts about its digits; find the digits from the facts and put them together.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/190-number-riddles/1/) — «My digits add up to 11 and my tens digit is 3 more than my ones digit.» Take 3 off: 11 - 3 = 8, half is 4, the ones digit; the tens digit is 4 + 3 = 7.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/190-number-riddles/2/) — The number is 74.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/190-number-riddles/3/) — Swapping the digits gives 47, which is 27 smaller: 9 times the difference of the digits.

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