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title: Writing, video calls and telling Mum you miss him all help. — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: Writing, video calls and telling Mum you miss him all help. Who acts: Writing, you. A sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Big brothers, sentence 30

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Writing, video calls and telling Mum you miss him all help.

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**Who acts:** Writing, you · **What happens:** tell, miss, help · **To what, where:** Mum, Finlay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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 (Writing, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:501-big-brothers.lesson:30
# text = Writing, video calls and telling Mum you miss him all help.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 501-big-brothers.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=4:conj
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Writing and video calls *not said here* |  | Mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **miss** | present | you | Finlay |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **help** | present | Writing and video calls |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:501-big-brothers.lesson:30`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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