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title: The area of an L-shape — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The area of an L-shape», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: An L-shape is a rectangle with one corner missing.
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# The area of an L-shape

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Lesson 197 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 4 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/197-area-of-an-l-shape/0/) — An L-shape is a rectangle with one corner missing.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/197-area-of-an-l-shape/1/) — Its area is the big rectangle's area minus the missing corner's area.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/197-area-of-an-l-shape/2/) — A 10 m by 8 m rectangle with a 4 m by 3 m corner cut out has 10 × 8 - 4 × 3 = 80 - 12 = 68 square metres.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/197-area-of-an-l-shape/3/) — Or cut the L into two rectangles, find both areas and add them: the answer is the same.

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