Living in a children's home, sentence 48
Official letters about children in care use formal words; a social worker can explain them, and the child's views are asked for.
Who acts: Official letters, social worker, child · What happens: use, explain, ask, view · To what, where: formal words, children, views
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 (Official letters, social worker, child), 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 | Official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 letters | amod |
| 2 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 children | case |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 letters | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 care | case |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 children | nmod |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 asked | parataxis |
| 8 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 explain | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 worker | det |
| 12 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 worker | amod |
| 13 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 explain | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 explain | aux |
| 15 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 use | parataxis |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 explain | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 views | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 views | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 child | case |
| 22 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 asked | aux:pass |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 asked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | infinitive | Official letters about children in care | formal words | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | can | a social worker | children = child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | the child's views | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | view | the child | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:48.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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