# Full text query multi\_match document scores

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/full-text-query-multi-match-document-scores/199096>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/full-text-query-multi-match-document-scores/199096 "2019-09-11T14:46:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![internet-media](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/73ab20/32.png) [@internet-media](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/internet-media)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/full-text-query-multi-match-document-scores/199096/1 "2019-09-11T14:46:39Z")

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Hey ElasticSearch Community,

I indexed documents of the following structure to ElasticSearch

```
"mappings" => [
    "properties" => [
        "title" => [
            "type" => "text"
        ],
        "tags" => [
            "type" => "text"
        ],
    ]
]

```

now I try to run a multi\_match query against my index like so:

```
"must" => [
    "multi_match" => [
        "query" => "awesome dishwasher",
        "operator" => "or",
        "fields" => [
            "tags",
            "title",
        ]
    ]
]

```

I expect the query to return documents that contain either "awesome" or "dishwasher" or both of the words in either the title field or the tag field.

I expect the query to score documents, which contain both words, higher than documents that contain only one of the words.

For some reason the document scoring is not like I expect it to be. Can you give me a hint what I'm doing wrong here, and explain, what I have to do different.

Best regards, Internet Media

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/full-text-query-multi-match-document-scores/199096/2 "2019-09-11T16:18:17Z")

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Could you provide a full recreation script as described in [About the Elasticsearch category](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21). It will help to better understand what you are doing. Please, try to keep the example as simple as possible.

A full reproduction script will help readers to understand, reproduce and if needed fix your problem. It will also most likely help to get a faster answer.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/full-text-query-multi-match-document-scores/199096/3 "2019-10-09T16:18:19Z")

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