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title: The times table in stories — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The times table in stories», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When there are several equal groups, multiply the number of groups by the number in one group.
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# The times table in stories

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Lesson 131 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 3 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/131-times-table-stories/0/) — When there are several equal groups, multiply the number of groups by the number in one group.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/131-times-table-stories/1/) — 4 bags with 6 apples in each bag hold 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 4 × 6 = 24 apples.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/131-times-table-stories/2/) — It does not matter whether we say «4 groups of 6» or «6 in each of 4 groups»: the answer is 4 × 6.

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