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title: Talking loudly about a party in front of people who are not invited… — Birthday parties · tree and pragmatics
description: Talking loudly about a party in front of people who are not invited can really hurt them. Who acts: Talking. A sentence of the lesson «Birthday parties» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Birthday parties, sentence 19

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Talking loudly about a party in front of people who are not invited can really hurt them.

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**Who acts:** Talking · **What happens:** talk, not invite, hurt · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthday parties» 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 (Talking), 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:19
# text = Talking loudly about a party in front of people who are not invited can really hurt them.
# 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): no change
1	Talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about a party in front of people; loudly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about party=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **invite** | present · passive |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **hurt** | can | Talking | people |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:130-birthday-parties.lesson:19`.

**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): no change. **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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