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title: Parties often have to be kept small, so not being invited does not a… — Friends, teams and fair play · tree and pragmatics
description: Parties often have to be kept small, so not being invited does not always mean someone dislikes you. Who acts: Parties, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Friends, teams and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friends, teams and fair play, sentence 21

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Parties often have to be kept small, so not being invited does not always mean someone dislikes you.

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**Who acts:** Parties, someone · **What happens:** have, keep, not invite, not mean, dislike · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends, teams and fair play» 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 (Parties, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson:21
# text = Parties often have to be kept small, so not being invited does not always mean someone dislikes you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.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	Parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	csubj	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dislikes	dislike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **have** | present | Parties |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive · passive | Parties *not said here* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **not** **invite** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 4 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **dislike** | present | someone | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |

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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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**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:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson:21`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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