--- title: Many children have grandparents in other countries, and video calls,… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics description: Many children have grandparents in other countries, and video calls, messages and parcels keep them close. Who acts: Many children, video calls. A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [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/23/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/) / 23 # Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 23 Many children have grandparents in other countries, and video calls, messages and parcels keep them close. **Who acts:** Many children, video calls · **What happens:** have, keep · **To what, where:** grandparents, other countries This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met» 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 (Many children, video calls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:23 # text = Many children have grandparents in other countries, and video calls, messages and parcels keep them close. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 parcels parcel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Many children | grandparents | | other countries | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandparent=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | present | video calls and messages and parcels | grandparents *= grandparent* | | | | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met.lesson:23`. **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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