I have several sections like NewsHolder
On my MainPage I want to show grups of the las 3 children page

3 Latest News From NewsHolder [1]
-NewsPageName [Last]
-NewsPageName [Last-1]
-NewsPageName [Last-2]

3 Latest News From NewsHolder [2]
-NewsPageName [Last]
-NewsPageName [Last-1]
-NewsPageName [Last-2]

3 Latest News From NewsHolder [3]
-NewsPageName [Last]
-NewsPageName [Last-1]
-NewsPageName [Last-2]

on the forum I found a function for my MainPage

function NewsList($num=3, $ParentURL='news') {
	$news = DataObject::get_one("NewsHolder", "URLSegment = '$ParentURL'");
	return ($news) ? DataObject::get("NewsPage", "ParentID = $news->ID", "Date DESC", "", $num) : false;
}

but it does not work when I sets $ParentURL

	<% control NewsList(3, $NewsHolder1URL) %>
		<div class="newsBl2">
			<div class="date">$Date.Nice</div>
			<a href="$Link" title="$Title.XML" class="newsH"><img src="img/newsHead/{$ID}.png" alt="$Title.XML" /></a>
			<div class="NewsDesc">$NewsDesc </div>
		</div>
	<% end_control %>

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in C:\Users\vitaliy\AppData\Local\Temp\silverstripe-cacheV--home-p.org.ua-www-harley-davidson\.cacheV..home.p.org.ua.www.harley-davidson.themes.harley.templates.Layout.MainPage.ss on line 197

What am I doing wrong?

You can't put a $ reference in the control. The template language doesn't work that way.

Instead, update NewsList() to refer to $this->NewsHolder1URL and then do away with the 2nd argument altogether.

great thanks
I thought that I will dance all night with timbrel