Foster care, sentence 36
Foster carers look after children in their own homes when the children's parents can't.
Who acts: Foster carers · What happens: look
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 (Foster carers), 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 | Foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carers | compound |
| 2 | carers | carer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 homes | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 homes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 homes | amod |
| 9 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 ca | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 children | det |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 children | case |
| 14 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ca | nsubj |
| 15 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | advcl |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 ca | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Foster carers | after children | in carers's own homes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in home=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:521-foster-care.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): 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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