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title: The comparison model: times as many, and the total — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The comparison model: times as many, and the total», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Draw the smaller amount as one bar, a unit.
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# The comparison model: times as many, and the total

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Lesson 191 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/191-comparison-model/0/) — Draw the smaller amount as one bar, a unit.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/191-comparison-model/2/) — Together the two amounts are 1 + 3 = 4 units, so one unit is the total divided by 4.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/191-comparison-model/3/) — Tom has 3 times as many stamps as Ann, and together they have 48: 4 units = 48, 1 unit = 12, so Tom has 3 × 12 = 36.

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