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title: His mum filmed the whole race, and Dad watches it three times that n… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics
description: His mum filmed the whole race, and Dad watches it three times that night: «Proper rapid, son!» At Cody's school there's a club for forces kids, where everybody knows what an empty spot feels like. Who acts: mum, Dad, club, everybody. A sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad,
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# Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 5

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His mum filmed the whole race, and Dad watches it three times that night: «Proper rapid, son!» At Cody's school there's a club for forces kids, where everybody knows what an empty spot feels like.

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**Who acts:** mum, Dad, club, everybody, empty spot · **What happens:** film, watch, be, know, feel · **To what, where:** whole race, race, school · **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 (mum, Dad, club, everybody), 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:5
# text = His mum filmed the whole race, and Dad watches it three times that night: «Proper rapid, son!» At Cody's school there's a club for forces kids, where everybody knows what an empty spot feels like.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	filmed	film	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
10	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod:unmarked
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
18	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rapid	rapid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	At	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Cody	Cody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	compound	_	_
34	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
37	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	38	nsubj	_	_
38	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
39	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	43	obj	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
44	like	like	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	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 | **film** | past | Cody's mum | the whole race |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** | present | Dad | race |  |  | night; time |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | a club for forces kids |  |  | Cody's school; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at school=Location |
| 4 | **know** | present | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **feel** | present | a empty spot |  |  |  |  | like *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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**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, R8-pos-agree ×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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