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title: Multiply, then add or take away — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Multiply, then add or take away», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Some problems take two steps: first multiply to find the total of the equal groups, then add or take away.
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# Multiply, then add or take away

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Lesson 89 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/89-multiply-then-add/0/) — Some problems take two steps: first multiply to find the total of the equal groups, then add or take away.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/89-multiply-then-add/1/) — 3 boxes of 8 pencils and 5 loose pencils make 3 × 8 = 24, then 24 + 5 = 29 pencils.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/89-multiply-then-add/2/) — If 6 of those 24 pencils are given away, 24 − 6 = 18 are left.

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