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title: If you cannot eat a food for religious, allergy or diet reasons, you… — Video calls and visiting a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: If you cannot eat a food for religious, allergy or diet reasons, you say "No, thank you, I can't eat that". Who acts: you, I. A sentence of the lesson «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Video calls and visiting a friend's house, sentence 12

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If you cannot eat a food for religious, allergy or diet reasons, you say "No, thank you, I can't eat that".

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not eat, say, thank · **To what, where:** food, you, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» of the everyday 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 (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.lesson:12
# text = If you cannot eat a food for religious, allergy or diet reasons, you say "No, thank you, I can't eat that".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	allergy	allergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	21	discourse	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	PronType=Dem	27	obj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **not** **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | a food |  |  |  | for allergy or religious diet reasons | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | can | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

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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:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.lesson:12`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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