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title: 8 guests and the birthday child are 9 people, and 9 × 2 = 18 cups an… — Seating and serving the guests · tree and pragmatics
description: 8 guests and the birthday child are 9 people, and 9 × 2 = 18 cups and plates. Who acts: 8 guests. 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 2

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8 guests and the birthday child are 9 people, and 9 × 2 = 18 cups and plates.

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**Who acts:** 8 guests · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 9 people

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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 (8 guests), 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:2
# text = 8 guests and the birthday child are 9 people, and 9 × 2 = 18 cups and plates.
# 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): no change
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
13	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	14	punct	_	_
16	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | 8 guests and the birthday child | 9 people |  |  |  |  | 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:2`.

**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): no change. **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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