--- title: At the party you say happy birthday to the birthday child and hello… — Birthday parties · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: you, children. 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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 (you, children), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 hello hello INTJ UH _ 7 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 smile smile VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | happy birthday | the birthday child | the party | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birthday=Topic to child=Recipient | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | you | children *= child* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **blow out** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children's own candles | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient | | 4 | **smile** | present | you | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lose** | present | you | a game | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality | 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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Birthday parties, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/1/) - next →: [Birthday parties, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/)