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title: Metres and centimetres — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Metres and centimetres», 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

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Lesson 98 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/98-metres-centimetres/0/) — One metre is 100 centimetres.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/98-metres-centimetres/1/) — To work with a length in metres and a length in centimetres, first turn the metres into centimetres.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/98-metres-centimetres/2/) — A ribbon 3 metres long is 300 centimetres; cutting off 45 centimetres leaves 300 − 45 = 255 centimetres.

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