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title: The perimeter of a rectangle — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The perimeter of a rectangle», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A rectangle has two long sides and two short sides: a rectangle 7 cm long and 3 cm wide has a perimeter of 7 + 3 + 7 + 3 = 20 cm.
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# The perimeter of a rectangle

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Lesson 105 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 2 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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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/105-perimeter-of-a-rectangle/1/) — A rectangle has two long sides and two short sides: a rectangle 7 cm long and 3 cm wide has a perimeter of 7 + 3 + 7 + 3 = 20 cm.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/105-perimeter-of-a-rectangle/2/) — A square has four equal sides: a square with sides of 5 cm has a perimeter of 4 × 5 = 20 cm.

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