--- title: They FaceTime on Sundays when the signal works, Dad's face freezing… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics description: They FaceTime on Sundays when the signal works, Dad's face freezing mid-laugh. Who acts: parents, signal, face. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/2/) [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/) / [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/) / 2 # Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 2 They FaceTime on Sundays when the signal works, Dad's face freezing mid-laugh. **Who acts:** parents, signal, face · **What happens:** facetime, work, freeze · **To what, where:** face 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, signal, face), 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:2 # text = They FaceTime on Sundays when the signal works, Dad's face freezing mid-laugh. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 FaceTime facetime VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sundays Sunday PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 freezing freeze VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 mid-laugh mid-laugh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **facetime** | present | parents *= parent* | | | | sunday | | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | present | the signal | Dad's face | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **freeze** | gerund | Dad's face *not said here* | | | | | mid-laugh *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/1/) - next →: [Parents far away: the army, work abroa…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison/)