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title: For every few of one, so many of another — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «For every few of one, so many of another», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Find how many groups there are from the colour you know, then multiply for the other colour.
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# For every few of one, so many of another

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Lesson 115 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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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/115-ratio/1/) — Find how many groups there are from the colour you know, then multiply for the other colour.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/115-ratio/2/) — With 10 red beads there are 10 / 2 = 5 groups, so there are 5 × 3 = 15 blue beads.

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