--- title: Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every Sunday, Taras in Leeds video calls his baba and dido (Ukrainian for gran and grandad) in Ukraine. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/) [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/) / Grandparents abroad and grandparents y… # Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met Lesson 513 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 29 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/0/) — Every Sunday, Taras in Leeds video calls his baba and dido (Ukrainian for gran and grandad) in Ukraine. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/1/) — Baba walks the phone round her garden to show him the tomatoes, then says quietly that the air-raid sirens were loud last night. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/2/) — Taras doesn't know what to say. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/3/) — Lots of children have grandparents far away, some in countries at war. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/4/) — Hearing about danger is hard, and it helps to tell Mum or Dad how it feels. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/5/) — And the calls matter hugely to Baba: seeing his face is the best part of her week. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/6/) — Language gaps are common, and they can be funny. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/7/) — In Vancouver, Lin's Mandarin is «mid» (Gen Z slang for just average). - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/9/) — In Auckland, Koa's grandad in Samoa sends voice messages in Samoan; Koa understands half, and his mum translates the rest. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/10/) — In Toronto, Sophie-Grace's gran rings from Scotland: «Ye're lookin' braw, hen!» «Huh?» («braw» is lovely, «hen» is dear.) Trying matters more than getting it right. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/11/) — Love travels in parcels. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/12/) — Every Diwali (the Hindu festival of lights), Nani (grandma, on mum's side) sends Pooja in Leicester a box of sweets from Delhi, and Pooja sends drawings back. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/13/) — In Sydney, Ethan-Jay's grandparents post Cadbury chocolate and Marmite from England; his mates go, «Ew, Marmite?», and he eats it anyway. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/14/) — In Dublin, Babcia (Polish for grandma) sends Olga and her mam a recipe for pierogi (dumplings); theirs come out like soggy slippers, and Babcia laughs on video till she cries. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/15/) — «Again next week!» - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/16/) — In Birmingham, Zara-Leigh's grandma rings from Jamaica: «Wah gwaan, mi baby?» (Jamaican Patois for what's going on, my baby?). - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/18/) — Ayo, 10, from London, visits Lagos once and can't believe how many people know his name: «You're Mama Bisi's grandson!» Visiting your grandparents' country can make you feel part of something big. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/19/) — Some grandparents you never meet. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/20/) — In Belfast, Jago's mates talk about their grannies, and Jago says, «I never met mine.» They died before he was born. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/21/) — He looks at old photos with his dad: Granda in a flat cap, Granny laughing at a wedding. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/22/) — You can still know grandparents you never met, through photos, stories and the things they left behind. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/23/) — Many children have grandparents in other countries, and video calls, messages and parcels keep them close. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/24/) — Hearing about danger, like a war where a grandparent lives, is hard; telling a parent how you feel helps. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/25/) — Calls from grandchildren mean a lot to grandparents far away. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/26/) — In Mandarin, the tone of a word changes its meaning, so a wrong tone can make a funny mistake. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/27/) — Language gaps with grandparents are common; trying matters more than getting it right. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/28/) — Learning a few words of a grandparent's language makes them very happy. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/29/) — Cooking a grandparent's recipe keeps family traditions alive, even when it goes wrong at first. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/32/) — Some children never meet their grandparents; photos and stories can still help them know them. - ← previous: [The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad/) - next →: [Dementia and the first death in the family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/514-dementia-and-the-first-death-in-the-family/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)