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title: So if Ann has 5 and that is 3 times fewer than Ben has, Ben has 5 ×… — So many times more, so many times fewer · tree and pragmatics
description: So if Ann has 5 and that is 3 times fewer than Ben has, Ben has 5 × 3 = 15. Who acts: Ann, that, Ben. A sentence of the lesson «So many times more, so many times fewer» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# So many times more, so many times fewer, sentence 2

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So if Ann has 5 and that is 3 times fewer than Ben has, Ben has 5 × 3 = 15.

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**Who acts:** Ann, that, Ben · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** 5, 5 ×

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This is a sentence of the lesson «So many times more, so many times 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 (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:133-times-more-times-fewer.lesson:2
# text = So if Ann has 5 and that is 3 times fewer than Ben has, Ben has 5 × 3 = 15.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 133-times-more-times-fewer.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
18	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	×	×	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
21	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	22	case	_	_
22	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **have** | present | Ann | 5 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  | time | few *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | Ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | Ben | 5 × |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ×=Patient |

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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:133-times-more-times-fewer.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, R6-punct-agree ×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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