--- title: A care home is a place where older people live with staff who help t… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: A care home is a place where older people live with staff who help them wash, dress, eat and take medicine, day and night. Who acts: care home, older people, staff, people. A sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [When Grandma and Grandad need more help](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/) / 11 # When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 11 A care home is a place where older people live with staff who help them wash, dress, eat and take medicine, day and night. **Who acts:** care home, older people, staff, people · **What happens:** be, live, help, wash, dress, eat · **To what, where:** place, people, medicine This is a sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» of the adult life 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 (care home, older people, staff, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.lesson:11 # text = A care home is a place where older people live with staff who help them wash, dress, eat and take medicine, day and night. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 8 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 staff staff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 dress dress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 23 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a care home | a place | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | older people | | | | | with staff | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with staff=Location | | 3 | **help** | present | staff | people | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **wash** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **dress** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **eat** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **take** | infinitive | people *not said here* | medicine | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=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](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:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.lesson:11`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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