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title: Sure of several of the same colour — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Sure of several of the same colour», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: To be sure of something, think of the unluckiest draw: it takes as many as it can without the wish coming true.
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# Sure of several of the same colour

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Lesson 181 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/181-pigeonhole-same-colour/0/) — To be sure of something, think of the unluckiest draw: it takes as many as it can without the wish coming true.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/181-pigeonhole-same-colour/1/) — With three colours, the unlucky hand holds one less than wanted of every colour; the very next one makes the wish come true.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/181-pigeonhole-same-colour/2/) — To be sure of 4 socks of one colour from red, blue and white socks: 3 + 3 + 3 = 9 can still fail, so 10 are sure.

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