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title: Sometimes a part is told by comparison («10 more than the first»): f… — A whole in three parts · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes a part is told by comparison («10 more than the first»): find that part first. Who acts: comparison. A sentence of the lesson «A whole in three parts» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# A whole in three parts, sentence 2

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Sometimes a part is told by comparison («10 more than the first»): find that part first.

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**Who acts:** comparison · **What happens:** tell, find · **To what, where:** part · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A whole in three parts» 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 (comparison), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:192-three-parts.lesson:2
# text = Sometimes a part is told by comparison («10 more than the first»): find that part first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 192-three-parts.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
10	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	appos	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | comparison | a part |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive |  | that part |  |  |  | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic |

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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:192-three-parts.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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