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title: Counting on and counting back — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Counting on and counting back», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: To count on, start at the number you have and say the next numbers, one for each step forward.
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# Counting on and counting back

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Lesson 61 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/61-counting-on-and-back/0/) — To count on, start at the number you have and say the next numbers, one for each step forward.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/61-counting-on-and-back/1/) — To count back, say the numbers before it, one for each step back.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/61-counting-on-and-back/2/) — From 34, counting on 3 gives 35, 36, 37; then counting back 2 gives 36, 35.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/61-counting-on-and-back/3/) — The answer is 35.

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