--- title: A babysitter is a trusted person who looks after children while pare… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: A babysitter is a trusted person who looks after children while parents are out, and parents leave phone numbers and rules so the babysitter knows who to call. Who acts: babysitter, trusted person, parents. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (babysitter, trusted person, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:6 # text = A babysitter is a trusted person who looks after children while parents are out, and parents leave phone numbers and rules so the babysitter knows who to call. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 babysitter babysitter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 out out ADV RB _ 8 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 so so SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 babysitter babysitter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a babysitter | a trusted person | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | present | a trusted person | | | | after children | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | parents | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | present | parents | phone numbers and rules | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | | 6 | **know** | present | the babysitter | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **call** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:6`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/5/) - next →: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/)