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title: A birthday cake has one candle for every year: a child turning 7 get… — Candles and party bags · tree and pragmatics
description: A birthday cake has one candle for every year: a child turning 7 gets 7 candles. Who acts: birthday cake, child. A sentence of the lesson «Candles and party bags» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Candles and party bags, sentence 0

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A birthday cake has one candle for every year: a child turning 7 gets 7 candles.

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**Who acts:** birthday cake, child · **What happens:** have, turn, get · **To what, where:** one candle, 7, 7 candles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Candles and party bags» of the lessons 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 (birthday cake, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:256-birthday-candles.lesson:0
# text = A birthday cake has one candle for every year: a child turning 7 gets 7 candles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 256-birthday-candles.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | a birthday cake | one candle |  |  | for every year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | a child *not said here* | 7 |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent 7=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present | a child | 7 candles |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer candle=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:lessons:256-birthday-candles.lesson:0`.

**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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