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title: Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps», 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 5 pieces you need only 4 cuts: the last piece needs no cut of its own.
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# Cuts and pieces, posts and gaps

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Lesson 139 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/139-cuts-and-gaps/0/) — To cut a log into 5 pieces you need only 4 cuts: the last piece needs no cut of its own.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/139-cuts-and-gaps/1/) — In the same way, 5 posts in a row have 4 gaps between them, and a clock striking 5 times has 4 pauses.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/139-cuts-and-gaps/2/) — So with 5 pieces and 3 minutes a cut, the sawing takes (5 − 1) × 3 = 12 minutes.

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