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title: Calls from grandchildren mean a lot to grandparents far away. — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics
description: Calls from grandchildren mean a lot to grandparents far away. Who acts: 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 25

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Calls from grandchildren mean a lot to grandparents far away.

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**Who acts:** Calls · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** lot

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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 (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:25
# text = Calls from grandchildren mean a lot to grandparents far away.
# 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): no change
1	Calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	.	.	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 | **mean** | present | Calls from grandchildren | a lot |  |  |  | to grandparents | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme to grandparent=Attribute |

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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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**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): no change. **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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