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title: You tell your parent and reply (RSVP) to an invitation by the date,… — Birthday parties · tree and pragmatics
description: You tell your parent and reply (RSVP) to an invitation by the date, saying yes or no. Who acts: You, date. 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 5

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You tell your parent and reply (RSVP) to an invitation by the date, saying yes or no.

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**Who acts:** You, date · **What happens:** tell, reply, say, invite · **To what, where:** parent, yes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, date), 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:5
# text = You tell your parent and reply (RSVP) to an invitation by the date, saying yes or no.
# 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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	reply	reply	VERB	VB	_	2	conj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	RSVP	rsvp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	yes	yes	NOUN	NN	_	17	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	no.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
```

## 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | You |  | your parent |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a invitation by the date | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to invitation=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | You *not said here* | yes or no. |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
| 4 | **invite** |  | the date |  |  |  |  |  | nom invitation «communication transitive»: by=agent |

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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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**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.

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