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title: To compare, find each part and subtract the smaller from the bigger:… — Comparing a half with a smaller part · tree and pragmatics
description: To compare, find each part and subtract the smaller from the bigger: a half of 12 is 6 − 4 = 2 more than a third of 12. A sentence of the lesson «Comparing a half with a smaller part» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Comparing a half with a smaller part, sentence 1

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To compare, find each part and subtract the smaller from the bigger: a half of 12 is 6 − 4 = 2 more than a third of 12.

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**What happens:** compare, find, subtract, be · **To what, where:** half, part, smaller

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Comparing a half with a smaller part» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:104-comparing-parts.lesson:1
# text = To compare, find each part and subtract the smaller from the bigger: a half of 12 is 6 − 4 = 2 more than a third of 12.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 104-comparing-parts.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 ×2
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	subtract	subtract	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	−	−	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
23	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	24	case	_	_
24	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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** | to-infinitive |  | a half  12 |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive |  | each part |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic |
| 3 | **subtract** | infinitive |  | the smaller |  |  |  | from the bigger | vn multiply-108-2 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent small=Theme from big=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of 6 − | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | than a third of 12 | 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:104-comparing-parts.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2. **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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