--- title: Read carefully who is compared to whom: «Sam has 9, that is 4 fewer… — More than, fewer than, less than · tree and pragmatics description: Read carefully who is compared to whom: «Sam has 9, that is 4 fewer than Lily» means Lily has 4 more, 9 + 4 = 13. Who acts: you, Sam, that, Lily. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Sam, that, Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:077-compare-bigger-smaller.lesson:2 # text = Read carefully who is compared to whom: «Sam has 9, that is 4 fewer than Lily» means Lily has 4 more, 9 + 4 = 13. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 077-compare-bigger-smaller.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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Read read VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 parataxis _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 22 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 24 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 28 + + SYM SYM _ 29 cc _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod 29 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nmod 30 = = SYM SYM _ 31 case _ _ 31 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | carefully *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **compare** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Sam | 9 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 9=Patient | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | 4 | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** | present | Lily | 4 more | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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:077-compare-bigger-smaller.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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/76-compare-difference/2/) - next →: [Two steps: some come, some go, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/78-two-steps/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/77-compare-bigger-smaller/)