Foster care, sentence 34

Amara's social worker tells her, «Your foster family would like you to stay with them long-term, until you're grown up.» «Like... forever?» Amara whispers.

Who acts: social worker, foster family, Amara · What happens: tell, like, stay, grow up, whisper · To what, where: Amara, long term · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Foster care» 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, foster family, Amara), 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	Amara	Amara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 worker	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Amara	case
3	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worker	amod
4	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	nsubj
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tells	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
9	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
10	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 family	compound
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 like	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tells	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 like	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stay	mark
16	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 like	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stay	obl
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 term	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 long	punct
21	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grown	punct
23	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 grown	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 grown	nsubj
25	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 grown	aux:pass
26	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stay	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 grown	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 grown	punct
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 grown	punct
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 grown	punct
31	Like	like	INTJ	_	26 grown	discourse
32	...	...	PUNCT	_	33 forever	punct
33	forever	forever	ADV	_	26 grown	advmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 grown	punct
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 whispers	punct
36	Amara	Amara	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 whispers	nsubj
37	whispers	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 grown	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 whispers	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
indirect: yes
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Amara's social worker		Amara		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like in a quote	would	Your foster family	Amara			tree rules
3	stay not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Your foster family not said here	long term		with family	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
4	grow up in a quote	present · passive		Amara		forever property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	whisper speech: assert	present	Amara				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:521-foster-care.lesson:34.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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