--- title: The area of a rectangle in square units — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The area of a rectangle in square units», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Area tells how many unit squares cover a shape. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/106-area-of-a-rectangle/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / The area of a rectangle in square units # The area of a rectangle in square units Lesson 106 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 4 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). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/106-area-of-a-rectangle/0/) — Area tells how many unit squares cover a shape. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/106-area-of-a-rectangle/1/) — A rectangle covered by rows of unit squares has length × width of them. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/106-area-of-a-rectangle/2/) — A rectangle 6 cm long and 4 cm wide holds 4 rows of 6 squares: 6 × 4 = 24 square centimeters. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/106-area-of-a-rectangle/3/) — A square with sides of 5 m has an area of 5 × 5 = 25 square meters. - ← previous: [The perimeter of a rectangle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/105-perimeter-of-a-rectangle/) - next →: [A missing side from the perimeter or the area](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/107-side-from-perimeter-or-area/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)