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

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Lesson 195 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/195-metres-and-centimetres/0/) — One metre is 100 centimetres.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/195-metres-and-centimetres/1/) — Turn a length like 3 m 45 cm into centimetres first: 3 × 100 + 45 = 345 cm.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/195-metres-and-centimetres/2/) — Then work in centimetres: cutting 4 pieces of 60 cm takes 4 × 60 = 240 cm, so 345 - 240 = 105 cm are left.

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