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title: Laying the party table — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Laying the party table», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A table laid in full gives every person 5 things: a plate, a knife, a fork, a spoon and a glass.
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# Laying the party table

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Lesson 259 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/259-laying-the-party-table/0/) — A table laid in full gives every person 5 things: a plate, a knife, a fork, a spoon and a glass.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/259-laying-the-party-table/2/) — The 4 of us and 6 guests are 10 people: 10 × 5 = 50 things.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/259-laying-the-party-table/3/) — If 12 are already laid, 50 − 12 = 38 more are needed.

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