Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 35

Children who cook, mind siblings or look after a struggling parent are called young carers, and there are groups to help them.

Who acts: Children, groups · What happens: cook, mind, look, call, be, help · To what, where: siblings, Children, groups · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of the everyday 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 (Children, groups), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 called	nsubj:pass
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 cook	nsubj
3	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Children	acl:relcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mind	punct
5	mind	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cook	conj
6	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mind	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 look	cc
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cook	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 parent	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 parent	det
11	struggling	struggling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 parent	compound
12	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux:pass
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 carers	amod
16	carers	carer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 are	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 are	cc
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 are	expl
20	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 called	conj
21	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 are	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 help	mark
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 groups	acl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	cook	present	Children				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	mind	present	Children not said here	siblings			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sibling=Theme
3	look	present	Children not said here			after a struggling parent	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	call	present · passive		Children			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	does	present	groups		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	help	to-infinitive	groups not said here	groups = group			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

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:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:35.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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