We have explained in our article Biblical Formatting located on the world wide web at http://www.Rashiyomi.com/biblicalformatting.pdf, that the Biblical Author indicated bullets by using repeating keywords.

That is, if a modern author wanted to get a point across using bullets - a list of similar but contrastive items - then the Biblical Author would use repeating keywords. Today's verse illustrates this principle.

Bullets whether indicated through modern notation or through the Biblical method of repeating keywords always indicate contrastive emphasis - that is, each bullet is presumed to be a distinct item contrasted to the other items on the list. Very often the bullets are also used to indicate that the entire list of exhaustive of some spectrum.

Verse(s) Dt31-12 discussing the obligation for men, women and children to hear the Torah reading once every 7 years states
Gather the people together,
• men, and
• women, and
• children, and
• your stranger who is inside your gates,
• in order that they may hear, and
• in order that they may learn,
and
• fear the Lord your God, and
• take care to do all the words of this Torah;
The repeated underlined phrase in order creates a bullet effect. The bullet effect in turn creates an emphasis on the distinctness of all enumerated items. Rashi interprets the distinctness as follows There are two general goals in the 7-year readings: 1) Intensive learning, typically done by men 2) Listening and understanding the laws, typically done by women. But the verse speaks about bringing men, women, children and strangers. The men and strangers come to learn and the women come to listen and understand God's laws. The verse does not list a 3rd goal for bringing the children. We therefore see the bringing of children as a prepatory work, an establishment of habit, that will yield fruit, reward, and paychecks later on when the children grow up and they begin to hear and listen.

Advanced Rashi: We mention a few subtle points
• The verse actually mentions four goals: listen, learn, fear, and observe. Our point in using the bullet method is that the the connective keyword phase in order that is only mentioned with listening, learning. It would therefore appear that fear and observe (which are not bulleted) are general consequences that apply to everyone.
• Rashi literally says Bring the infants to receive reward. This is a bit cryptic. I have interpreted this to mean Just as in a work situation you work, not necessarily seeing a goal, but pick up a paycheck at the end of the day so too in listening to the 7-year reading people are asked to bring their children so that in the end, when this habit is established, there is a reward/paycheck, that these children will now learn and listen also.