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title: Some parents are alive and loving and still far away: in the army, w… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics
description: Some parents are alive and loving and still far away: in the army, working abroad, or in prison. Who acts: parents. A sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 0

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Some parents are alive and loving and still far away: in the army, working abroad, or in prison.

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**Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** be, work

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» 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 (parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:0
# text = Some parents are alive and loving and still far away: in the army, working abroad, or in prison.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some parents |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | some parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | some parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:0`.

**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): 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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