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title: To find it, take the smaller number from the bigger: 34 is 34 − 21 =… — How many more, how many fewer · tree and pragmatics
description: To find it, take the smaller number from the bigger: 34 is 34 − 21 = 13 more than 21, and 21 is 13 fewer than 34. Who acts: partner. 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 1

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To find it, take the smaller number from the bigger: 34 is 34 − 21 = 13 more than 21, and 21 is 13 fewer than 34.

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**Who acts:** partner · **What happens:** find, take, be · **To what, where:** partner, smaller number, bigger, 34 34, 13

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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 (partner), 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:1
# text = To find it, take the smaller number from the bigger: 34 is 34 − 21 = 13 more than 21, and 21 is 13 fewer than 34.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
16	−	−	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
18	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	case	_	_
19	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	22	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod
28	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	appos	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | partner |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | partner *not said here* | the smaller number |  | the bigger |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent number=Theme from big=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | 34 34 |  |  |  | = 13 21; − *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | 13 |  |  |  |  | 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: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 ×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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