--- title: Seating and serving the guests — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Seating and serving the guests», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: At a party every person at the table gets one cup and one plate: that is 2 things for each person. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/258-cups-and-plates-for-the-guests/) [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/) / Seating and serving the guests # Seating and serving the guests Lesson 258 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). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/258-cups-and-plates-for-the-guests/0/) — At a party every person at the table gets one cup and one plate: that is 2 things for each person. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/258-cups-and-plates-for-the-guests/1/) — Do not forget the birthday child: the guests come to the party, and the child having the birthday sits at the table too. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/258-cups-and-plates-for-the-guests/2/) — 8 guests and the birthday child are 9 people, and 9 × 2 = 18 cups and plates. - ← previous: [Party costs, drinks and time](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/257-cups-of-juice/) - next →: [Laying the party table](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/259-laying-the-party-table/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)