--- title: A carer is someone paid to help a person with everyday things like g… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: A carer is someone paid to help a person with everyday things like getting up, washing and meals, so they can stay in their own home. Who acts: carer, everyday things. 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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 (carer, everyday things), 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:12 # text = A carer is someone paid to help a person with everyday things like getting up, washing and meals, so they can stay in their own home. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 carer carer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 5 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 like like SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 washing wash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 carer | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | participle | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | | | a person | | | with everyday things | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary with thing=Theme | | 4 | **get up** | gerund | everyday things *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **wash** | gerund | everyday things *not said here* | meals | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | | 6 | **stay** | can | carer | | | carer's own home | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location | 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:12`. **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, R7-rel-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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