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title: More by, fewer by — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «More by, fewer by», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: «7 more than» means add: 7 more than 20 is 20 + 7 = 27.
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# More by, fewer by

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Lesson 126 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 3 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/126-more-by-fewer-by/0/) — «7 more than» means add: 7 more than 20 is 20 + 7 = 27.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/126-more-by-fewer-by/1/) — Read carefully who has more.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/126-more-by-fewer-by/2/) — «Ann has 20, that is 7 fewer than Ben» means Ben has more: Ben has 20 + 7 = 27.

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