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title: Cuts, posts and floors: the gaps between — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Cuts, posts and floors: the gaps between», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: To cut a log into 4 pieces you need only 3 cuts: the last piece needs no cut.
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# Cuts, posts and floors: the gaps between

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Lesson 128 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).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/128-cuts-posts-and-floors/0/) — To cut a log into 4 pieces you need only 3 cuts: the last piece needs no cut.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/128-cuts-posts-and-floors/1/) — Between 4 posts in a row there are only 3 gaps.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/128-cuts-posts-and-floors/2/) — So count the gaps, one fewer than the pieces or posts. 5 posts 2 m apart: 4 gaps, 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 m from the first post to the last.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/128-cuts-posts-and-floors/3/) — Walking from the 1st floor to the 4th you climb only 3 flights of stairs.

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