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title: A fraction of a quantity — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «A fraction of a quantity», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: To find a fraction of a quantity, first find one equal part: divide by the number below the line.
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# A fraction of a quantity

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Lesson 151 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/151-fraction-of-a-quantity/0/) — To find a fraction of a quantity, first find one equal part: divide by the number below the line.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/151-fraction-of-a-quantity/1/) — Then take as many parts as the number above the line says: multiply.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/151-fraction-of-a-quantity/2/) — Three fifths of a 40 km road: one fifth is 40 ÷ 5 = 8 km, so three fifths is 3 × 8 = 24 km.

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