--- title: A boy in Montreal cannot go to a party because of a football match;… — Birthday parties · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: boy, I. 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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 (boy, I), 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:4 # text = 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. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Montreal Montreal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 20 Thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 inviting invite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** | can | a boy in Montreal | | | a party | | because a football match | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **write** | present | boy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | boy *not said here* | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **invite** *in a quote* | gerund | boy *not said here* | | me | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | can | I | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **hurt** | present · passive | | boy's friend | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/3/) - next →: [Birthday parties, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/)