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title: Laying the table — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Laying the table», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When a table is laid, every person gets a knife, a fork and a spoon: 3 pieces of cutlery for each person.
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# Laying the table

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Lesson 253 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/253-laying-the-table/0/) — When a table is laid, every person gets a knife, a fork and a spoon: 3 pieces of cutlery for each person.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/253-laying-the-table/1/) — First count all the people at the table: the family and the guests together.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/253-laying-the-table/2/) — The 4 of us and 3 guests: 4 + 3 = 7 people, and 7 × 3 = 21 knives, forks and spoons.

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