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title: The difference is then 3 - 1 = 2 units. — Difference and multiple: how many times as many,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The difference is then 3 - 1 = 2 units. Who acts: difference. A sentence of the lesson «Difference and multiple: how many times as many, and how many more» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Difference and multiple: how many times as many, and how many more, sentence 1

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The difference is then 3 - 1 = 2 units.

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**Who acts:** difference · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 3 2 units

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Difference and multiple: how many times as many, and how many more» 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:155-difference-and-multiple.lesson:1
# text = The difference is then 3 - 1 = 2 units.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 155-difference-and-multiple.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
5	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
6	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	9	case	_	_
9	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
10	units	unit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | the difference | 3 2 units |  |  | then |  | 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:155-difference-and-multiple.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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