--- title: Some children never meet their grandparents; photos and stories can… — Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met · tree and pragmatics description: Some children never meet their grandparents; photos and stories can still help them know them. Who acts: children, photos, grandparents. 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 prag --- [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/32/) [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/) / 32 # Grandparents abroad and grandparents you never met, sentence 32 Some children never meet their grandparents; photos and stories can still help them know them. **Who acts:** children, photos, grandparents · **What happens:** not meet, help, know · **To what, where:** grandparents 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 (children, photos, grandparents), 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:32 # text = Some children never meet their grandparents; photos and stories can still help them know them. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 grandparents grandparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 8 photos photo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **meet** | present | some children | children's grandparents | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandparent=Co-Agent | | 2 | **help** | can | photos and stories | grandparents *= grandparent* | | | still | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **know** | infinitive | grandparents *= grandparent* *not said here* | grandparents *= grandparent* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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:32`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. 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