Living in a children's home, sentence 47
Social workers help children in care, explain letters and plans, and look for foster families.
Who acts: Social workers · What happens: help, explain, look · To what, where: children, care, letters
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 workers), 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 | Social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 workers | amod |
| 2 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 care | case |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 children | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 explain | punct |
| 8 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | conj |
| 9 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 explain | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 plans | cc |
| 11 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 letters | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 look | cc |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 families | case |
| 16 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 families | compound |
| 17 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 look | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Social workers | children | care | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | present | Social workers not said here | letters and plans | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look | present | Social workers not said here | for foster families | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for family=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:47.
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): no change. 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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