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title: Small rituals for the days a parent comes home help them feel less l… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics
description: Small rituals for the days a parent comes home help them feel less like a visitor. Who acts: parent, Small rituals, 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 of every
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# Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 49

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Small rituals for the days a parent comes home help them feel less like a visitor.

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**Who acts:** parent, Small rituals, parents · **What happens:** come, help, feel · **To what, where:** days, parents

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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 (parent, Small rituals, 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:49
# text = Small rituals for the days a parent comes home help them feel less like a visitor.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rituals	ritual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 | **come** | present | a parent | the days *not said here* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present | Small rituals for the days | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a visitor; less *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like visitor=Theme |

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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:49`.

**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, R6-punct-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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