--- title: Telling a busy parent «I miss you» helps, because grown-ups don't al… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a busy parent «I miss you» helps, because grown-ups don't always notice. Who acts: I, Telling, grown ups. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Rich families: the big house, the nann…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad/) / 31 # Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 31 Telling a busy parent «I miss you» helps, because grown-ups don't always notice. **Who acts:** I, Telling, grown ups · **What happens:** tell, miss, help, grow, not notice · **To what, where:** busy parent · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, Telling, grown ups), 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:31 # text = Telling a busy parent «I miss you» helps, because grown-ups don't always notice. # 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 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 iobj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 miss miss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 10 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 13 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 19 advmod _ _ 19 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a busy parent | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **miss** *in a quote* | present | I | a busy parent *= parent* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **help** | present | Telling | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **notice** | present · do-support | grown ups | | | | | always *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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](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:31`. **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. 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