--- title: The thought matters, not the price, so you never say how much a pres… — Birthday parties · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: thought, you, families. A sentence of the lesson «Birthday parties» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/3/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/) / 3 # Birthday parties, sentence 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. **Who acts:** thought, you, families · **What happens:** matter, not say, not celebrate, respect · **To what, where:** much present cost, birthdays, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (thought, you, families), 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:3 # text = 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. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 religions religion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 celebrate celebrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 27 birthdays birthday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 obj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 respect respect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present | the thought | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you | a much present cost | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cost=Topic | | 3 | **not** **celebrate** | present · do-support | some families and religions | birthdays | | all | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme | | 4 | **respect** | present | you | birthdays | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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: [Birthday parties, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/2/) - next →: [Birthday parties, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/)