Why do assembly need repeated operation of movzx on eax?

Code - Difference is one method is for signed short int-s and another for unsigned short int.

short signedShortIntSwap(short int* a , short int* b){    short tmp = *a;    *a = *b;    *b = tmp;    return *a;}unsigned short unsignedShortIntSwap(unsigned short int* a ,unsigned short int* b){    unsigned short tmp = *a;    *a = *b;    *b = tmp;    return *a;}

Assembly: - gcc -c -m64 -o func1 func1.c -O2 -fno-tree-vectorize

0000000000000000 <signedShortIntSwap>:   0:   f3 0f 1e fa             endbr64    4:   0f b7 07                movzx  eax,WORD PTR [rdi]   7:   0f b7 16                movzx  edx,WORD PTR [rsi]   a:   66 89 17                mov    WORD PTR [rdi],dx   d:   66 89 06                mov    WORD PTR [rsi],ax  10:   0f b7 07                movzx  eax,WORD PTR [rdi]  13:   c3                      ret      14:   66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00    data16 nop WORD PTR cs:[rax+rax*1+0x0]  1b:   00 00 00 00   1f:   90                      nop0000000000000020 <unsignedShortIntSwap>:  20:   f3 0f 1e fa             endbr64   24:   0f b7 07                movzx  eax,WORD PTR [rdi]  27:   0f b7 16                movzx  edx,WORD PTR [rsi]  2a:   66 89 17                mov    WORD PTR [rdi],dx  2d:   66 89 06                mov    WORD PTR [rsi],ax  30:   0f b7 07                movzx  eax,WORD PTR [rdi]  33:   c3                      ret      34:   66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00    data16 nop WORD PTR cs:[rax+rax*1+0x0]  3b:   00 00 00 00   3f:   90                      nop

1. Why do we have movzx eax,WORD PTR [rdi] repeated for each functions at address 4&& 10 and 24&& 30.
2. Why is for both signed and unsigned function have identical instruction set. In which case it differs?