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title: The whole from its fraction — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The whole from its fraction», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: If we know how much a fraction of something is, we can find the whole.
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# The whole from its fraction

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Lesson 152 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/152-the-whole-from-a-fraction/0/) — If we know how much a fraction of something is, we can find the whole.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/152-the-whole-from-a-fraction/1/) — Divide by the number above the line to get one part, then multiply by the number below the line to get all the parts.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/152-the-whole-from-a-fraction/2/) — Three fourths of a ribbon is 18 cm: one fourth is 18 ÷ 3 = 6 cm, and the whole ribbon is 4 × 6 = 24 cm.

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