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title: Parents who work long hours or night shifts are often doing it for t… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents who work long hours or night shifts are often doing it for the family; missing them shows how much you love them. Who acts: Parents, missing, you. A sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 15

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Parents who work long hours or night shifts are often doing it for the family; missing them shows how much you love them.

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**Who acts:** Parents, missing, you · **What happens:** work, do, miss, show, love · **To what, where:** food, families · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection 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, missing, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:15
# text = Parents who work long hours or night shifts are often doing it for the family; missing them shows how much you love them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl:unmarked
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **work** | present | Parents |  |  |  | hour |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present · progressive | Parents | food |  |  |  | for the family; often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **miss** | gerund |  | families *= family* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **show** | present | missing |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **love** | present | you | families *= family* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:15`.

**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): R7-rel-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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