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title: Dozens and spoonfuls — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Dozens and spoonfuls», 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.
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# Dozens and spoonfuls

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Lesson 251 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 4 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/251-dozens-and-spoonfuls/0/) — A dozen is 12.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/251-dozens-and-spoonfuls/1/) — Eggs, rolls, doughnuts and cookies are often sold by the dozen, so "3 dozen" means 3 × 12 = 36.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/251-dozens-and-spoonfuls/2/) — To find how many are left, first turn the dozens into a number, then take away what was used or eaten.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/251-dozens-and-spoonfuls/3/) — 2 dozen eggs, and 5 go into a cake: 2 × 12 = 24, and 24 − 5 = 19 eggs are left.

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