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title: Parents' evening is a meeting between parents and teachers about how… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents' evening is a meeting between parents and teachers about how a child is doing at school. Who acts: evening, child. A sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 13

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Parents' evening is a meeting between parents and teachers about how a child is doing at school.

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**Who acts:** evening, child · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** meeting, school

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» 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 (evening, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:13
# text = Parents' evening is a meeting between parents and teachers about how a child is doing at school.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.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	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Parents's evening | a meeting |  |  |  | between parents and teachers | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present · progressive | a child |  |  | school |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:13`.

**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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