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title: I never knew her.» Both missing and not knowing how to miss are okay. — When a parent has died · tree and pragmatics
description: I never knew her.» Both missing and not knowing how to miss are okay. Who acts: I, missing. 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 21

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I never knew her.» Both missing and not knowing how to miss are okay.

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**Who acts:** I, missing · **What happens:** not know, miss, be · **To what, where:** Mum · **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 (I, missing), 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:21
# text = I never knew her.» Both missing and not knowing how to miss are okay.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **not** **know** | past | I | Mum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | gerund | missing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **miss** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | missing |  |  |  |  | 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:518-when-a-parent-has-died.lesson:21`.

**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, R6-punct-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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