When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 12
A carer is someone paid to help a person with everyday things like getting up, washing and meals, so they can stay in their own home.
Who acts: carer, everyday things · What happens: be, pay, help, get up, wash, stay · To what, where: someone, person, meals, own home
This is a sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» of the adult life 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 (carer, everyday things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 carer | det |
| 2 | carer | carer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 someone | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 someone | cop |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 someone | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 paid | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 person | det |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 person | nmod |
| 13 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 14 getting | mark |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 things | acl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 getting | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 washing | punct |
| 17 | washing | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 getting | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 meals | cc |
| 19 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 washing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stay | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 stay | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stay | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 stay | aux |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 paid | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 home | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 home | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 home | amod |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stay | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 someone | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a carer | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | participle | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | a person | with everyday things | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary with thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get up | gerund | everyday things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | wash | gerund | everyday things not said here | meals | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | ||||
| 6 | stay | can | carer | carer's own home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location |
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.
Licence: CC 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:adult-life:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.lesson:12.
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, R7-rel-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.
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