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title: Two steps and a number you do not need — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Two steps and a number you do not need», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Some stories give a number that does not help answer the question.
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# Two steps and a number you do not need

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Lesson 118 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 6 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/118-distracting-number/0/) — Some stories give a number that does not help answer the question.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/118-distracting-number/1/) — Read the question first, then pick only the numbers it needs.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/118-distracting-number/3/) — He has 5 boxes of 8 crayons and gives away 12 crayons.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/118-distracting-number/4/) — How many crayons are left?» His age does not matter.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/118-distracting-number/5/) — Step one: 5 × 8 = 40 crayons.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/118-distracting-number/6/) — Step two: 40 - 12 = 28 crayons left.

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