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title: At a party every person at the table gets one cup and one plate: tha… — Seating and serving the guests · tree and pragmatics
description: At a party every person at the table gets one cup and one plate: that is 2 things for each person. Who acts: person, that. A sentence of the lesson «Seating and serving the guests» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Seating and serving the guests, sentence 0

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At a party every person at the table gets one cup and one plate: that is 2 things for each person.

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**Who acts:** person, that · **What happens:** get, be · **To what, where:** one cup, party, 2 things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Seating and serving the guests» 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, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:258-cups-and-plates-for-the-guests.lesson:0
# text = At a party every person at the table gets one cup and one plate: that is 2 things for each person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 258-cups-and-plates-for-the-guests.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **get** | present | every person at the table | one cup and one plate |  | a party |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cup=Theme at party=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | 2 things |  |  |  | for each person | tree rules |

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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:258-cups-and-plates-for-the-guests.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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