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title: Feet, inches, yards, pounds and stone — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Feet, inches, yards, pounds and stone», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A foot is 12 inches.
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# Feet, inches, yards, pounds and stone

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Lesson 248 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/248-feet-inches-yards-pounds-and-stone/0/) — A foot is 12 inches.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/248-feet-inches-yards-pounds-and-stone/1/) — Heights are often given in feet and inches, like 4 feet 6 inches.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/248-feet-inches-yards-pounds-and-stone/2/) — To turn a height into inches only, multiply the feet by 12 and add the extra inches.

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