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title: A table laid in full gives every person 5 things: a plate, a knife,… — Laying the party table · tree and pragmatics
description: A table laid in full gives every person 5 things: a plate, a knife, a fork, a spoon and a glass. Who acts: table. A sentence of the lesson «Laying the party 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 party table, sentence 0

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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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**Who acts:** table · **What happens:** lay, give · **To what, where:** table, full, 5 things, person

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laying the party 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 (table), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:259-laying-the-party-table.lesson:0
# text = A table laid in full gives every person 5 things: a plate, a knife, a fork, a spoon and a glass.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 259-laying-the-party-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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
6	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
9	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **lay** | participle |  | a table *not said here* |  | full |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in full=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | present | a table | 5 things and a fork and a spoon and a glass | every person |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent person=Recipient thing=Theme |

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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:259-laying-the-party-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): R5-strong ×1, 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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