--- title: If you cannot go, you still answer: "Thank you for inviting me, I'm… — Birthday parties · tree and pragmatics description: If you cannot go, you still answer: "Thank you for inviting me, I'm sorry I can't come." Who acts: you, I. 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Birthday parties, sentence 7 If you cannot go, you still answer: "Thank you for inviting me, I'm sorry I can't come." **Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** not go, answer, thank, invite, be, not come · **To what, where:** you, me · **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 (you, 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:7 # text = If you cannot go, you still answer: "Thank you for inviting me, I'm sorry I can't come." # 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 ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 still still ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 answer answer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 inviting invite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: apologize - voice: character - polarity: neg - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | still | | tree rules | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **invite** *in a quote* | gerund | | | 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 | 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:7`. **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 ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/6/) - next →: [Birthday parties, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/130-birthday-parties/)