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title: A story in three steps — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «A story in three steps», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A long story can be solved one step at a time: find one number, use it to find the next, then finish.
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# A story in three steps

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Lesson 119 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 4 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/119-three-steps/0/) — A long story can be solved one step at a time: find one number, use it to find the next, then finish.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/119-three-steps/2/) — Step two: 4 × 5 = 20, and 18 + 20 = 38.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/119-three-steps/3/) — Step three: 38 - 7 = 31 cards.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/119-three-steps/4/) — Write each step down so no number is lost.

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