--- title: Dad digs out an old video of Mam singing at a barbecue, badly, and t… — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics description: Dad digs out an old video of Mam singing at a barbecue, badly, and they watch it together and cry and laugh. Who acts: Dad, old video, children. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/16/) [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/) / [When a parent has died](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/) / 16 # When a parent has died, sentence 16 Dad digs out an old video of Mam singing at a barbecue, badly, and they watch it together and cry and laugh. **Who acts:** Dad, old video, children · **What happens:** dig out, sing, watch, cry, laugh · **To what, where:** old video, barbecue, video 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 (Dad, old video, children), 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:16 # text = Dad digs out an old video of Mam singing at a barbecue, badly, and they watch it together and cry and laugh. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Mam mam NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 barbecue barbecue NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig out** | present | Dad | a old video of Mam | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent video=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | a old video of Mam *not said here* | | | a barbecue | | badly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at barbecue=Location | | 3 | **watch** | present | children *= child* | video | | | | together *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **laugh** | present | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:16`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [When a parent has died, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/15/) - next →: [When a parent has died, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/518-when-a-parent-has-died/)