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title: Ellie and her mum make a memory box for Grandad: his glasses, a phot… — Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ellie and her mum make a memory box for Grandad: his glasses, a photo, the wrapper from his favourite sweets and a postcard, and she can open it whenever she misses him. Who acts: Ellie, love. A sentence of the lesson «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» of the religion ethics
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# Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days, sentence 1

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Ellie and her mum make a memory box for Grandad: his glasses, a photo, the wrapper from his favourite sweets and a postcard, and she can open it whenever she misses him.

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**Who acts:** Ellie, love · **What happens:** make, open, miss · **To what, where:** memory box, box, person

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Missing someone: memory boxes, birthdays and special days» of the religion ethics 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 (Ellie, love), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.lesson:1
# text = Ellie and her mum make a memory box for Grandad: his glasses, a photo, the wrapper from his favourite sweets and a postcard, and she can open it whenever she misses him.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 068-missing-someone-memory-boxes-birthdays-and-special-days.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wrapper	wrapper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	postcard	postcard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	misses	miss	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **make** | present | Ellie and love's mum | a memory box |  |  |  | for Grandad and person's glasses and a photo and the wrapper from person's favourite sweets and a postcard | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent box=Material for grandad=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **open** | can | love | box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **miss** | present | love | person |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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**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): R8-pos-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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