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title: Take the smaller amount away from the bigger amount. — How many more to have as many · tree and pragmatics
description: Take the smaller amount away from the bigger amount. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «How many more to have as many» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How many more to have as many, sentence 1

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Take the smaller amount away from the bigger amount.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** smaller amount

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How many more to have as many» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:066-how-many-more-to-match.lesson:1
# text = Take the smaller amount away from the bigger amount.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 066-how-many-more-to-match.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): no change
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the smaller amount |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme |

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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): no change. **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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