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title: Swapping the digits gives 47, which is 27 smaller: 9 times the diffe… — Who am I? Number riddles · tree and pragmatics
description: Swapping the digits gives 47, which is 27 smaller: 9 times the difference of the digits. Who acts: Swapping. A sentence of the lesson «Who am I? Number riddles» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Who am I? Number riddles, sentence 3

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Swapping the digits gives 47, which is 27 smaller: 9 times the difference of the digits.

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**Who acts:** Swapping · **What happens:** swap, give, be · **To what, where:** digits, 47

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Who am I? Number riddles» 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 (Swapping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:190-number-riddles.lesson:3
# text = Swapping the digits gives 47, which is 27 smaller: 9 times the difference of the digits.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 190-number-riddles.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Swapping	swap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	digits	digit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	47	47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nummod
10	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	digits	digit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **swap** | gerund |  | the digits |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent digit=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | Swapping | 47 |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 47=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | 27 *obl*; small *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:190-number-riddles.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): R7-rel-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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