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title: Metres and centimetres, dollars and cents — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Metres and centimetres, dollars and cents», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: 1 metre is 100 centimetres, and 1 dollar is 100 cents.
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# Metres and centimetres, dollars and cents

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Lesson 134 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/134-two-units-in-one/0/) — 1 metre is 100 centimetres, and 1 dollar is 100 cents.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/134-two-units-in-one/1/) — To write 3 metres 25 centimetres in centimetres, turn the metres into centimetres and add: 300 + 25 = 325 centimetres.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/134-two-units-in-one/2/) — Money works the same way: 4 dollars 60 cents is 400 + 60 = 460 cents.

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