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title: Some jobs, such as on oil rigs, ships or fly-in fly-out mines, mean… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics
description: Some jobs, such as on oil rigs, ships or fly-in fly-out mines, mean parents are away for weeks and then home for weeks. 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 pragm
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# Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 48

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Some jobs, such as on oil rigs, ships or fly-in fly-out mines, mean parents are away for weeks and then home for weeks.

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**Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** fly, mean, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:48
# text = Some jobs, such as on oil rigs, ships or fly-in fly-out mines, mean parents are away for weeks and then home for weeks.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rigs	rig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	ccomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	home	home	ADV	RB	_	23	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **fly** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | parents |  |  |  | week | away *property* | 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): no change. **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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