--- title: How many more, how many fewer — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «How many more, how many fewer», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: To compare two numbers, we ask how many more one has than the other. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/76-compare-difference/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / How many more, how many fewer # How many more, how many fewer Lesson 76 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 3 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/76-compare-difference/0/) — To compare two numbers, we ask how many more one has than the other. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/76-compare-difference/1/) — Match them up one to one; the ones without a partner are the difference, and we find it by subtracting the smaller from the bigger. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/76-compare-difference/2/) — Anna has 14 shells and Sam has 9: 14 - 9 = 5, so Anna has 5 more shells than Sam, and Sam has 5 fewer than Anna. - ← previous: [Two parts and the whole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/75-part-part-whole/) - next →: [More than, fewer than, less than](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/77-compare-bigger-smaller/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)