When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 13

Many grown-ups become unpaid carers for their own parents, helping with medicine and meals, which can leave them tired and stressed.

Who acts: Many grown ups, unpaid carers, meals · What happens: grow, become, help, leave, stress · To what, where: unpaid carers, carer

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 (Many grown ups, unpaid carers, meals), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ups	amod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ups	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	nsubj
5	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	unpaid	unpaid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carers	amod
7	carers	carer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 parents	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 parents	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 parents	amod
11	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carers	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 helping	punct
13	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 carers	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 medicine	case
15	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 helping	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 meals	cc
17	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 medicine	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leave	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 leave	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 leave	aux
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 meals	parataxis
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leave	obj
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leave	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stressed	cc
25	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 tired	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	present	Many grown ups	unpaid carers for carer's own parents		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	help	gerund	unpaid carers for carer's own parents not said here		with medicine and meals	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with medicine=Theme
4	leave	can	meals	carer	tired property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	stress	participle	meals not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: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): 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.

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