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title: Review: adding and taking away stories — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Review: adding and taking away stories», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Each story asks for one number that is missing: a start, a change, an end, a whole, a part or a difference.
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# Review: adding and taking away stories

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Lesson 80 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 5 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/80-mixed-review/0/) — Each story asks for one number that is missing: a start, a change, an end, a whole, a part or a difference.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/80-mixed-review/1/) — Ask yourself: do things come or go, are two parts put together, or are two amounts compared?
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/80-mixed-review/2/) — Then decide whether to add or subtract.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/80-mixed-review/3/) — «Lily gave away 35 stamps and has 48 left.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/80-mixed-review/4/) — How many did she have?» The start is missing: 48 + 35 = 83.

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