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title: Canadian coins — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Canadian coins», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In Canada the one-dollar coin is called a loonie, because it has a loon on it, and the two-dollar coin is called a toonie.
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# Canadian coins

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Lesson 242 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/242-canadian-coins/0/) — In Canada the one-dollar coin is called a loonie, because it has a loon on it, and the two-dollar coin is called a toonie.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/242-canadian-coins/1/) — To count the money, each toonie gives 2 dollars and each loonie gives 1 dollar; add the two amounts.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/242-canadian-coins/2/) — 3 toonies and 2 loonies make 3 × 2 + 2 = 8 dollars.

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