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title: When a table is laid, every person gets a knife, a fork and a spoon:… — Laying the table · tree and pragmatics
description: When a table is laid, every person gets a knife, a fork and a spoon: 3 pieces of cutlery for each person. Who acts: person. A sentence of the lesson «Laying the table» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Laying the table, sentence 0

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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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**Who acts:** person · **What happens:** lay, get · **To what, where:** table, knife

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laying the table» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:253-laying-the-table.lesson:0
# text = When a table is laid, every person gets a knife, a fork and a spoon: 3 pieces of cutlery for each person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 253-laying-the-table.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	cutlery	cutlery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present · passive |  | a table |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **get** | present | every person | a knife and a fork and a spoon |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knife=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:lessons:253-laying-the-table.lesson:0`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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