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title: To compare two numbers, match them one to one; what has no partner i… — How many more, how many fewer · tree and pragmatics
description: To compare two numbers, match them one to one; what has no partner is the difference. Who acts: difference. A sentence of the lesson «How many more, how many fewer» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How many more, how many fewer, sentence 0

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To compare two numbers, match them one to one; what has no partner is the difference.

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**Who acts:** difference · **What happens:** compare, match, have, be · **To what, where:** two numbers, numbers, partner, difference

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How many more, how many fewer» 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 (difference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:124-how-many-more.lesson:0
# text = To compare two numbers, match them one to one; what has no partner is the difference.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 124-how-many-more.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): no change
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	match	match	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	csubj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **compare** | to-infinitive |  | two numbers |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 2 | **match** | infinitive |  | numbers *= number* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | the difference | no partner |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the difference |  |  |  |  | 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:124-how-many-more.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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