--- title: Metres, centimetres and millimetres — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Metres, centimetres and millimetres», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A metre is 100 centimetres, and a centimetre is 10 millimetres. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / Metres, centimetres and millimetres # Metres, centimetres and millimetres Lesson 247 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). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/0/) — A metre is 100 centimetres, and a centimetre is 10 millimetres. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/1/) — To cut a length in metres into pieces measured in centimetres, first turn the metres into centimetres, then divide by the length of one piece. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/247-metres-centimetres-and-millimetres/2/) — 3 metres of ribbon is 300 cm; pieces of 25 cm give 300 ÷ 25 = 12 pieces. - ← previous: [Best buys and offers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/246-best-buys-and-offers/) - next →: [Feet, inches, yards, pounds and stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/248-feet-inches-yards-pounds-and-stone/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)