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title: Taking away across ten — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Taking away across ten», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When there are not enough ones to take away, first take away down to ten, then take away the rest from the ten.
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# Taking away across ten

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Lesson 122 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/122-taking-away-across-ten/0/) — When there are not enough ones to take away, first take away down to ten, then take away the rest from the ten.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/122-taking-away-across-ten/1/) — 13 − 5: take 3 to get down to 10, then take the other 2: 10 − 2 = 8.

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