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title: Points in a game — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Points in a game», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In basketball a basket scored from inside the line is worth 2 points, a three-pointer 3 points and a free throw 1 point.
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# Points in a game

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Lesson 234 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/234-points-in-a-game/0/) — In basketball a basket scored from inside the line is worth 2 points, a three-pointer 3 points and a free throw 1 point.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/234-points-in-a-game/1/) — Multiply each kind of score by its points, then add the three amounts.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/234-points-in-a-game/2/) — 4 baskets, 2 three-pointers and 3 free throws: 4 × 2 + 2 × 3 + 3 × 1 = 8 + 6 + 3 = 17 points.

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