Birthday parties, sentence 2
At the party you say happy birthday to the birthday child and hello to the parents, you let them blow out their own candles, and you smile when you lose a game.
Who acts: you, children · What happens: say, let, blow out, smile, lose · To what, where: happy birthday, birthday child, party, children, own candles, game · 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, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 party | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 party | det |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birthday | amod |
| 7 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 10 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 child | compound |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 birthday | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hello | cc |
| 13 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 7 birthday | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 parents | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 parents | det |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hello | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hello | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 let | nsubj |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 blow | compound:prt |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 candles | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 candles | amod |
| 25 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 blow | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 smile | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 smile | cc |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 smile | nsubj |
| 29 | smile | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | parataxis |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 lose | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 lose | nsubj |
| 32 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 smile | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 game | det |
| 34 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lose | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | you | happy birthday | the birthday child | the party | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birthday=Topic to child=Recipient | ||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you | children = child | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blow out | infinitive | children = child not said here | children's own candles | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent candle=Patient | ||||
| 4 | smile | present | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lose | present | you | a game | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality |
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, 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:2.
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 ×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.
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