--- title: Anna has 14 shells and Sam has 9: 14 - 9 = 5, so Anna has 5 more she… — How many more, how many fewer · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Anna, Sam. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/76-compare-difference/2/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/76-compare-difference/) / 2 # How many more, how many fewer, sentence 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. **Who acts:** Anna, Sam · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** 14 shells, 9, 5 more shells, 5 fewer 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 (Anna, Sam), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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 Anna Anna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 parataxis _ _ 11 - - SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 12 case _ _ 12 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 = = SYM SYM _ 14 case _ _ 14 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 Anna Anna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 obj _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Anna Anna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Anna | 14 shells | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | Sam | 9 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 9=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | Anna | 5 more shells | | | | than Sam | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | Sam | 5 fewer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient | 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. **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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [How many more, how many fewer, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/76-compare-difference/1/) - next →: [More than, fewer than, less than, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/77-compare-bigger-smaller/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/76-compare-difference/)