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title: A number we do not need — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «A number we do not need», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Some stories tell us a number that the question does not ask about.
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# A number we do not need

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Lesson 79 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 6 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/79-extra-number/0/) — Some stories tell us a number that the question does not ask about.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/79-extra-number/1/) — Find what the question asks, and use only the numbers that belong to it.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/79-extra-number/2/) — «Max has 15 cards and 7 marbles.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/79-extra-number/3/) — He gives 4 cards to Zoe.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/79-extra-number/4/) — How many cards does he have left?» The 7 marbles do not matter: 15 - 4 = 11 cards.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/79-extra-number/5/) — Before you add or subtract, say in words what each number counts.

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