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title: One equal part of a set — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «One equal part of a set», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A fraction like one third means: split the whole set into equal parts and take one part.
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# One equal part of a set

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Lesson 101 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).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/101-one-part-of-a-set/0/) — A fraction like one third means: split the whole set into equal parts and take one part.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/101-one-part-of-a-set/1/) — To find one third of 12 apples, share them into 3 equal groups: 12 ÷ 3 = 4, so one third of 12 is 4.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/101-one-part-of-a-set/2/) — One fourth (a quarter) of 20 is 20 ÷ 4 = 5, and one fifth of 20 is 20 ÷ 5 = 4.

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