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title: Sum and multiple: two amounts from their total and «times as many» — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Sum and multiple: two amounts from their total and «times as many»», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: If one amount is 3 times another, draw the smaller as 1 part and the bigger as 3 parts: together they a
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# Sum and multiple: two amounts from their total and «times as many»

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Lesson 147 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/147-sum-and-multiple/0/) — If one amount is 3 times another, draw the smaller as 1 part and the bigger as 3 parts: together they are 1 + 3 = 4 equal parts.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/147-sum-and-multiple/1/) — Divide the total by the number of parts to get one part, the smaller amount; multiply to get the bigger.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/147-sum-and-multiple/2/) — Two boxes hold 48 apples, the first 3 times as many as the second: 48 ÷ 4 = 12 in the second, 12 × 3 = 36 in the first.

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