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title: In New York, Clementine's parents miss her school play because of a… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics
description: In New York, Clementine's parents miss her school play because of a work trip; they send flowers and a video call. Who acts: parents, Clementine. A sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 10

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In New York, Clementine's parents miss her school play because of a work trip; they send flowers and a video call.

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**Who acts:** parents, Clementine · **What happens:** miss, send, play · **To what, where:** school play, New York, flowers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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 (parents, Clementine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:10
# text = In New York, Clementine's parents miss her school play because of a work trip; they send flowers and a video call.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	Clementine	Clementine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **miss** | present | Clementine's parents | Clementine's school play |  | New York |  | because a work trip | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer play=Stimulus |
| 2 | **send** | present | parents *= parent* | flowers and a video call |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 3 | **play** |  | Clementine |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:10`.

**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 ×1. **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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