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title: Report cards and important letters are usually meant for parents to… — Snooping on phones, diaries and letters · tree and pragmatics
description: Report cards and important letters are usually meant for parents to read first. A sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Snooping on phones, diaries and letters, sentence 22

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Report cards and important letters are usually meant for parents to read first.

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**What happens:** mean, read · **To what, where:** Report cards

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:22
# text = Report cards and important letters are usually meant for parents to read first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.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	Report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **mean** | present · passive |  | Report cards and important letters |  |  |  | for parents; usually *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for parent=Attribute |
| 2 | **read** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:22`.

**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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