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title: Yards, feet and inches in two steps — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Yards, feet and inches in two steps», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: One yard is 3 feet, and one foot is 12 inches.
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# Yards, feet and inches in two steps

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Lesson 100 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/100-two-step-measures/0/) — One yard is 3 feet, and one foot is 12 inches.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/100-two-step-measures/1/) — When a story mixes units, turn everything into one unit, work out the story, then turn the answer into the unit the question asks for.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/100-two-step-measures/2/) — A rope 4 yards long is 12 feet; cutting off 5 feet leaves 7 feet, and 7 feet are 7 × 12 = 84 inches.

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