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title: Pairs and odd socks — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Pairs and odd socks», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A pair is two things that go together: a pair of socks is 2 socks, a pair of shoes is 2 shoes.
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# Pairs and odd socks

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Lesson 212 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/212-pairs-and-odd-socks/0/) — A pair is two things that go together: a pair of socks is 2 socks, a pair of shoes is 2 shoes.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/212-pairs-and-odd-socks/1/) — To count the single things, count 2 for every pair and then add the odd ones that have no partner.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/212-pairs-and-odd-socks/2/) — 6 pairs of socks and 3 odd socks: 6 × 2 = 12, and 12 + 3 = 15 socks.

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