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title: Numbers to 1000: adding and taking away in stories — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Numbers to 1000: adding and taking away in stories», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A number to 1000 has hundreds, tens and ones: 476 is 4 hundreds, 7 tens and 6 ones.
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# Numbers to 1000: adding and taking away in stories

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Lesson 141 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/141-three-digit-stories/0/) — A number to 1000 has hundreds, tens and ones: 476 is 4 hundreds, 7 tens and 6 ones.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/141-three-digit-stories/1/) — To add or take away big numbers, write them one under the other and work column by column, ones first: carry ten ones as one ten, or break one ten into ten ones.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/141-three-digit-stories/2/) — A library had 476 books, bought 158 and gave away 290: 476 + 158 = 634, and 634 - 290 = 344 books.

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