--- title: They talk it through, and now on his first day home they always go t… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics description: They talk it through, and now on his first day home they always go to the servo (petrol station) for a pie, just the two of them. Who acts: jobs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jobs), 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:20 # text = They talk it through, and now on his first day home they always go to the servo (petrol station) for a pie, just the two of them. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 through through ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 7 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 12 home home ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 15 advmod _ _ 15 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 servo servo NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 20 petrol petrol NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 station station NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pie pie NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 appos _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . 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 | **talk** | present | jobs *= job* | craic | | | | through *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **go** | present | jobs *= job* | | | the servo | now; day | for a pie; always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to servo=Initial\_Location | 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:20`. **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. **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. 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