--- title: An invitation needs an answer: you tell your parent and reply (RSVP)… — Birthday parties · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: invitation, you, host. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (invitation, you, host), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:130-birthday-parties.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 130-birthday-parties.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 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 invitation invitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 iobj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 RSVP rsvp NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 28 discourse _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:discourse 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 plan plan VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | a invitation | a answer | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | | your parent and reply | | | by the date | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | | 3 | **plan** | must | the host | food and games | | | | for the right number of children | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | 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. **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:130-birthday-parties.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/). - ← previous: [Video calls and visiting a friend's ho…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends/23/) - next →: [Birthday parties, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/)