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title: Some parents are cool or distant: they say little and rarely praise… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics
description: Some parents are cool or distant: they say little and rarely praise or hug. Who acts: parents. A sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 7

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Some parents are cool or distant: they say little and rarely praise or hug.

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**Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** be, say, praise, hug · **To what, where:** little · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:7
# text = Some parents are cool or distant: they say little and rarely praise or hug.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	praise	praise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hug	hug	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **is** | present | some parents |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | some parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | parents *= parent* | little |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic |
| 4 | **praise** | present | parents *= parent* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hug** | present | parents *= parent* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:7`.

**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 ×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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