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title: A phone call with a parent you rarely see can feel awkward, and that… — The parent who left, and a new partner · tree and pragmatics
description: A phone call with a parent you rarely see can feel awkward, and that is okay. Who acts: you, phone call, that. A sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The parent who left, and a new partner, sentence 40

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A phone call with a parent you rarely see can feel awkward, and that is okay.

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**Who acts:** you, phone call, that · **What happens:** see, feel, be · **To what, where:** parent

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» 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 (you, phone call, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.lesson:40
# text = A phone call with a parent you rarely see can feel awkward, and that is okay.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **see** | present | you | a parent *not said here* |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feel** | can | a phone call with a parent |  |  |  |  | awkward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |

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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:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.lesson:40`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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