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title: Then compare: the one with fewer needs the difference to have as many. — Number sense review: tens, ones and how many more · tree and pragmatics
description: Then compare: the one with fewer needs the difference to have as many. Who acts: you, fewer. A sentence of the lesson «Number sense review: tens, ones 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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# Number sense review: tens, ones and how many more, sentence 1

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Then compare: the one with fewer needs the difference to have as many.

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**Who acts:** you, fewer · **What happens:** compare, need, have · **To what, where:** one, difference

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Number sense review: tens, ones 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 (you, fewer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:070-number-sense-review.lesson:1
# text = Then compare: the one with fewer needs the difference to have as many.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 070-number-sense-review.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	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	compare	compare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	nsubj	_	_
8	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	12	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | imperative | you *not said here* | the one |  |  | then |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | fewer | the difference |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot difference=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | fewer *not said here* | the difference *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:070-number-sense-review.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): 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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