--- title: Birthday parties — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Birthday parties», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: An invitation needs an answer: you tell your parent and reply (RSVP) by the date, yes or no, because the host must plan food and games for the right num --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Birthday parties # Birthday parties Lesson 130 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 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). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/130-birthday-parties/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/0/) — An invitation needs an answer: you tell your parent and reply (RSVP) by the date, yes or no, because the host must plan food and games for the right number of children. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/1/) — Nobody likes being left out, so invitations are given privately or to the whole class, and you do not talk about the party in front of children who were not invited. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/2/) — At the party you say happy birthday to the birthday child and hello to the parents, you let them blow out their own candles, and you smile when you lose a game. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/3/) — The thought matters, not the price, so you never say how much a present cost; and some families and religions do not celebrate birthdays at all, which you respect. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/4/) — A boy in Montreal cannot go to a party because of a football match; he writes "Thank you for inviting me, I'm sorry I can't come", and his friend is not hurt. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/5/) — You tell your parent and reply (RSVP) to an invitation by the date, saying yes or no. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/6/) — The host needs to know how many children to plan for. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/7/) — If you cannot go, you still answer: "Thank you for inviting me, I'm sorry I can't come." - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/8/) — Invitations are given privately or to the whole class, not in front of children who are not invited. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/9/) — When you arrive, you say happy birthday to the birthday child and hello to the parents. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/10/) — The price of a present does not matter; the thought does. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/11/) — If you lose a party game, you congratulate the winner and keep smiling. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/12/) — The birthday child blows out the candles alone, because it is their special moment. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/13/) — You say thank you for a party bag and when people sing happy birthday to you. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/14/) — You do not talk about a party in front of children who were not invited. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/15/) — Some religions and families do not celebrate birthdays, and that is respected. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/16/) — At a birthday party in Ohio, a toddler put a burst balloon piece in his mouth and it blocked his throat; an adult had to clear it quickly. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/17/) — A girl in Leeds was not invited to a party and everyone talked about it at school; she felt left out for weeks, and the next year the class agreed to give invitations out of school. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/18/) — Pieces of burst balloons are one of the most common things young children choke on. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/19/) — Talking loudly about a party in front of people who are not invited can really hurt them. - ← previous: [Video calls and visiting a friend's house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)