--- title: Distances out and about — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Distances out and about», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A kilometre is 1000 metres. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/250-distances-out-and-about/) [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/) / Distances out and about # Distances out and about Lesson 250 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). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/250-distances-out-and-about/0/) — A kilometre is 1000 metres. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/250-distances-out-and-about/1/) — Going somewhere and back means covering the distance twice. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/250-distances-out-and-about/2/) — To find the whole walk in metres, turn the kilometres into metres, double them for the way back, and add any extra distance walked there. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/250-distances-out-and-about/3/) — 2 km to the park and back is 2 × 2000 = 4000 m; with 3 laps of 250 m round the park the walk is 4000 + 750 = 4750 m. - ← previous: [Weight and volume in the kitchen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/249-weight-and-volume-in-the-kitchen/) - next →: [Dozens and spoonfuls](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/251-dozens-and-spoonfuls/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)