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title: A whole in three parts — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «A whole in three parts», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When a whole is made of three parts, the parts add up to the whole.
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# A whole in three parts

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Lesson 192 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 5 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/192-three-parts/0/) — When a whole is made of three parts, the parts add up to the whole.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/192-three-parts/1/) — Knowing the whole and two parts, take both away.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/192-three-parts/2/) — Sometimes a part is told by comparison («10 more than the first»): find that part first.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/192-three-parts/3/) — 90 stickers are red, blue or green. 25 are red, and there are 10 more blue than red: 25 + 10 = 35 blue.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/192-three-parts/4/) — Green: 90 - 25 - 35 = 30.

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