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title: Brackets in a story: first the group, then the groups — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Brackets in a story: first the group, then the groups», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Work out what is in brackets first.
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# Brackets in a story: first the group, then the groups

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Lesson 137 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 5 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/137-brackets-as-stories/0/) — Work out what is in brackets first.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/137-brackets-as-stories/1/) — In 3 × (4 + 2) we first find 4 + 2 = 6, then 3 × 6 = 18.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/137-brackets-as-stories/2/) — A story for it: 3 bags, each with 4 red and 2 green apples.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/137-brackets-as-stories/3/) — One bag has 4 + 2 = 6 apples, so 3 bags have 3 × 6 = 18.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/137-brackets-as-stories/4/) — Counting the colours apart gives the same: 3 × 4 + 3 × 2 = 12 + 6 = 18.

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