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title: A pair for each person — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «A pair for each person», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Each person has two feet and two hands, so each person wears a pair: 2 shoes, 2 boots, 2 gloves.
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# A pair for each person

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Lesson 213 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/213-a-pair-for-each-person/0/) — Each person has two feet and two hands, so each person wears a pair: 2 shoes, 2 boots, 2 gloves.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/213-a-pair-for-each-person/1/) — First count the people, then take 2 things for each person.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/213-a-pair-for-each-person/2/) — 3 children and 2 grown-ups leave their boots by the door: 3 + 2 = 5 people, and 5 × 2 = 10 boots.

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