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title: Comparing works the same way: if Ann has 2/5 as many as Ben, Ann has… — The bar model: the whole from the part that is l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Comparing works the same way: if Ann has 2/5 as many as Ben, Ann has 2 units, Ben has 5, and the difference is 3 units. Who acts: Ann, Ben, difference. A sentence of the lesson «The bar model: the whole from the part that is left, and from a difference» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school
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# The bar model: the whole from the part that is left, and from a difference, sentence 3

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Comparing works the same way: if Ann has 2/5 as many as Ben, Ann has 2 units, Ben has 5, and the difference is 3 units.

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**Who acts:** Ann, Ben, difference · **What happens:** compare, work, have, be · **To what, where:** same way, 2/5, 2 units, 5, 3 units

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The bar model: the whole from the part that is left, and from a difference» 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, Ben, difference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:159-model-method-units.lesson:3
# text = Comparing works the same way: if Ann has 2/5 as many as Ben, Ann has 2 units, Ben has 5, and the difference is 3 units.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 159-model-method-units.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 ×3
1	Comparing	compare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
10	2/5	2/5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	units	unit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	units	unit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **compare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | present |  | the same way |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material |
| 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Ann | 2/5 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2/5=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present | Ann | 2 units |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unit=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present | Ben | 5 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 5=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the difference | 3 units |  |  |  |  | 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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**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 ×3. **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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