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title: He can't shoot hoops like before, and Bryce misses the old Dad. — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics
description: He can't shoot hoops like before, and Bryce misses the old Dad. Who acts: Mia, Bryce. 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 22

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He can't shoot hoops like before, and Bryce misses the old Dad.

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**Who acts:** Mia, Bryce · **What happens:** not shoot, miss · **To what, where:** hoops, old Dad

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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 (Mia, Bryce), 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:22
# text = He can't shoot hoops like before, and Bryce misses the old Dad.
# 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	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hoops	hoop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	Bryce	Bryce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	misses	miss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** **shoot** | can | Mia | hoops |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoop=Theme |
| 2 | **miss** | present | Bryce | the old Dad |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dad=Stimulus |

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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:22`.

**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/).

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