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title: Some parents live far away because they are in the armed forces, wor… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics
description: Some parents live far away because they are in the armed forces, work abroad or in another town, or are 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
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# Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 44

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Some parents live far away because they are in the armed forces, work abroad or in another town, or are in prison.

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**Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** live, be, work · **To what, where:** armed forces, prison

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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:44
# text = Some parents live far away because they are in the armed forces, work abroad or in another town, or are 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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **live** | present | some parents |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | parents *= parent* |  |  | the armed forces |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | present | some parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | some parents *not said here* |  |  | prison |  |  | 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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**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 ×2. **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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