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title: Best buys and offers — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Best buys and offers», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A dozen is 12 things, and a dollar is worth 100 cents.
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# Best buys and offers

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Lesson 246 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/246-best-buys-and-offers/0/) — A dozen is 12 things, and a dollar is worth 100 cents.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/246-best-buys-and-offers/1/) — To see how much a box saves, find what a dozen loose things cost, then take away the box price, both in cents.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/246-best-buys-and-offers/2/) — Eggs at 25 cents each: a dozen loose cost 12 × 25 = 300 cents; a dozen box for $2.50 is 250 cents, so the box saves 50 cents.

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