--- title: The host needs to know how many children to plan for. — Birthday parties · tree and pragmatics description: The host needs to know how many children to plan for. Who acts: host. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/6/) [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/) / 6 # Birthday parties, sentence 6 The host needs to know how many children to plan for. **Who acts:** host · **What happens:** need, know, plan · **To what, where:** many children · **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 (host), 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:6 # text = The host needs to know how many children to plan for. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 plan plan VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 11 for for ADP IN _ 10 obl _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | the host | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the host *not said here* | many children | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **plan** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/5/) - next →: [Birthday parties, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/)