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title: Candles and party bags — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Candles and party bags», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A birthday cake has one candle for every year: a child turning 7 gets 7 candles.
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# Candles and party bags

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Lesson 256 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/256-birthday-candles/0/) — A birthday cake has one candle for every year: a child turning 7 gets 7 candles.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/256-birthday-candles/1/) — When several children have a cake each, add up their new ages to find all the candles.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/256-birthday-candles/2/) — Cakes for children turning 5, 7 and 9: 5 + 7 + 9 = 21 candles.

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