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title: Comparing someone's height with a person you know, like your dad, is… — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics
description: Comparing someone's height with a person you know, like your dad, is easier than guessing a number. Who acts: you, Comparing. A sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Remembering details, sentence 9

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Comparing someone's height with a person you know, like your dad, is easier than guessing a number.

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**Who acts:** you, Comparing · **What happens:** compare, know, be, guess · **To what, where:** height, person, number

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» of the everyday 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, Comparing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:018-remembering-details.lesson:9
# text = Comparing someone's height with a person you know, like your dad, is easier than guessing a number.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 018-remembering-details.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
1	Comparing	compare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **compare** | gerund |  | someone's height |  |  |  | with a person like your dad | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent height=Patient with person=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present | you | a person like your dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | Comparing |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **guess** | gerund | Comparing *not said here* | a number |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |

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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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**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. **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.

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