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title: Cuts and pieces — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Cuts and pieces», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Cutting a log or a ribbon into pieces always takes one cut fewer than the number of pieces: the last piece needs no cut.
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# Cuts and pieces

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Lesson 185 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/185-cuts-and-pieces/0/) — Cutting a log or a ribbon into pieces always takes one cut fewer than the number of pieces: the last piece needs no cut.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/185-cuts-and-pieces/1/) — A log of 24 dm cut into pieces of 4 dm gives 24 ÷ 4 = 6 pieces, which takes 6 - 1 = 5 cuts.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/185-cuts-and-pieces/2/) — If each cut takes 3 minutes, the work takes 5 × 3 = 15 minutes, not 6 × 3.

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