--- title: You reply to a party invitation by the date asked (invitations often… — Routines, screen time and earning money · tree and pragmatics description: You reply to a party invitation by the date asked (invitations often say «RSVP», which means please reply), because the host needs to know how many are coming. Who acts: You, invitations, host, many. 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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 (You, invitations, host, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:264-routines-screens-and-earning.lesson:15 # text = You reply to a party invitation by the date asked (invitations often say «RSVP», which means please reply), because the host needs to know how many are coming. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 264-routines-screens-and-earning.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 ×2 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 reply reply VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 invitation invitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 12 invitations invitation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 RSVP rsvp X GW _ 14 obj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 please please INTJ UH _ 22 discourse _ _ 22 reply reply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 ccomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present | You | | | | | to a party invitation by the date | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to invitation=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle | | the date *not said here* | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | invitations | RSVP | | | | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rsvp=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **need** | present | the host | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the host *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **come** | present · progressive | many | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **invite** | | the date | | | | | | nom invitation «communication transitive»: by=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:264-routines-screens-and-earning.lesson:15`. **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 ×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: [Routines, screen time and earning money, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/264-routines-screens-and-earning/14/) - next →: [Routines, screen time and earning money, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/264-routines-screens-and-earning/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/264-routines-screens-and-earning/)