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title: Lily needs 12 - 8 = 4 more cards to have as many as Tom. — How many more to have as many · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily needs 12 - 8 = 4 more cards to have as many as Tom. Who acts: Lily. 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 3

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Lily needs 12 - 8 = 4 more cards to have as many as Tom.

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**Who acts:** Lily · **What happens:** need, have · **To what, where:** 12 4 more cards, many

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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 (Lily), 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:3
# text = Lily needs 12 - 8 = 4 more cards to have as many as Tom.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
4	-	-	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
5	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	9	cc	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | **need** | present | Lily | 12 4 more cards |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot card=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | Lily *not said here* | many |  |  |  |  | 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:066-how-many-more-to-match.lesson:3`.

**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, 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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