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title: One night Elin realises she can't remember Mam's voice. — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics
description: One night Elin realises she can't remember Mam's voice. Who acts: Elin. A sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When a parent has died, sentence 15

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One night Elin realises she can't remember Mam's voice.

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**Who acts:** Elin · **What happens:** realise, not remember · **To what, where:** voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When a parent has died» 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 (Elin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:15
# text = One night Elin realises she can't remember Mam's voice.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 518-when-a-parent-has-died.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Elin	Elin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	realises	realise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	Mam	mam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	.	.	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 | **realise** | present | Elin |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **remember** | can | Elin | Mam's voice |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |

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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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:15`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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