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title: To compare two numbers, we ask how many more one has than the other. — How many more, how many fewer · tree and pragmatics
description: To compare two numbers, we ask how many more one has than the other. Who acts: we, many more one. A sentence of the lesson «How many more, how many fewer» 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, how many fewer, sentence 0

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To compare two numbers, we ask how many more one has than the other.

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**Who acts:** we, many more one · **What happens:** compare, ask, have · **To what, where:** two numbers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:076-compare-difference.lesson:0
# text = To compare two numbers, we ask how many more one has than the other.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 076-compare-difference.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	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | two numbers |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | many more one |  |  |  |  | than the other | 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:076-compare-difference.lesson:0`.

**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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