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title: The price of one thing from the money paid and the change — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The price of one thing from the money paid and the change», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: If you paid with more money than the things cost, the change came back: what the things cost is the money given 
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# The price of one thing from the money paid and the change

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Lesson 144 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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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/144-price-from-change/1/) — If you paid with more money than the things cost, the change came back: what the things cost is the money given minus the change.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/144-price-from-change/2/) — 3 pens bought with 50 dollars and 14 dollars change: they cost 50 - 14 = 36 dollars, so one pen costs 36 ÷ 3 = 12 dollars.

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