--- title: Counting in a repeating pattern — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Counting in a repeating pattern», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A pattern repeats the same group again and again. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/123-counting-in-patterns/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / Counting in a repeating pattern # Counting in a repeating pattern Lesson 123 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). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/123-counting-in-patterns/0/) — A pattern repeats the same group again and again. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/123-counting-in-patterns/1/) — Count how many groups there are, then count in each group. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/123-counting-in-patterns/2/) — Beads go 2 red, 3 blue, 2 red, 3 blue, 2 red, 3 blue: that is 3 groups, so there are 3 + 3 + 3 = 9 blue beads. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/123-counting-in-patterns/3/) — If you know all the beads instead, one group has 2 + 3 = 5 beads, and 15 beads make 3 groups. - ← previous: [Taking away across ten](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/122-taking-away-across-ten/) - next →: [How many more, how many fewer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/124-how-many-more/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)