--- title: «Ann has 20, that is 7 fewer than Ben» means Ben has more: Ben has 2… — More by, fewer by · tree and pragmatics description: «Ann has 20, that is 7 fewer than Ben» means Ben has more: Ben has 20 + 7 = 27. Who acts: Ann, that, Ben. A sentence of the lesson «More by, fewer by» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/126-more-by-fewer-by/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / [More by, fewer by](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/126-more-by-fewer-by/) / 2 # More by, fewer by, sentence 2 «Ann has 20, that is 7 fewer than Ben» means Ben has more: Ben has 20 + 7 = 27. **Who acts:** Ann, that, Ben · **What happens:** have, be, mean · **To what, where:** 20, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «More by, fewer by» 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 (Ann, that, Ben), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:126-more-by-fewer-by.lesson:2 # text = «Ann has 20, that is 7 fewer than Ben» means Ben has more: Ben has 20 + 7 = 27. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 126-more-by-fewer-by.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Ann Ann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:csubj 4 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nummod 9 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ 10 than than SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj 17 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Ben Ben PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 20 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obj _ _ 21 + + SYM SYM _ 22 cc _ _ 22 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 conj _ _ 23 = = SYM SYM _ 24 case _ _ 24 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Ann | 20 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 20=Patient | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | 7 *obl*; Ben *obl*; few *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** | present | Ben | more | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | | 5 | **have** | present | Ben | 20 | | | | = 27 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 20=Patient | 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. **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:126-more-by-fewer-by.lesson:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [More by, fewer by, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/126-more-by-fewer-by/1/) - next →: [Stories in two steps, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/127-two-step-stories/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/126-more-by-fewer-by/)