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title: Comparing a half with a smaller part — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Comparing a half with a smaller part», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A half of a set is the biggest of these parts: a half of 12 is 6, a third of 12 is 4, a fourth of 12 is 3.
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# Comparing a half with a smaller part

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Lesson 104 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 2 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/104-comparing-parts/0/) — A half of a set is the biggest of these parts: a half of 12 is 6, a third of 12 is 4, a fourth of 12 is 3.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/104-comparing-parts/1/) — To compare, find each part and subtract the smaller from the bigger: a half of 12 is 6 − 4 = 2 more than a third of 12.

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