Living in a children's home, sentence 36
His social worker explains: grown-ups will meet to check that where he lives is still right for him, and he can tell them what he thinks.
Who acts: social worker, grown ups, notice · What happens: explain, grow, meet, check, live, be · To what, where: ups · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» 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 (social worker, grown ups, notice), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 worker | nmod:poss |
| 2 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 worker | amod |
| 3 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 explains | nsubj |
| 4 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 explains | punct |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ups | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
| 8 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 meet | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 meet | aux |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 explains | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 check | mark |
| 12 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 meet | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 right | mark |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 lives | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lives | nsubj |
| 16 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 right | csubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 right | cop |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 right | advmod |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 check | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 right | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tell | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | aux |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 meet | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 thinks | obj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thinks | nsubj |
| 30 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | notice's social worker | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | meet | future | grown ups | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | check | to-infinitive | grown ups not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | live | present | notice | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | present | grown ups not said here | still | for notice; right property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | can | notice | ups = up | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | think speech: other | present | notice | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:36.
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): 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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