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title: Pairs and the one left alone — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Pairs and the one left alone», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When things are put in pairs, every pair has 2.
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# Pairs and the one left alone

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Lesson 68 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/68-pairs-and-odd-ones/0/) — When things are put in pairs, every pair has 2.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/68-pairs-and-odd-ones/1/) — An even number makes pairs with none left alone.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/68-pairs-and-odd-ones/3/) — 13 children make 6 pairs, and 1 child is left alone, because 6 + 6 = 12 and 12 + 1 = 13.

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