--- title: Many grown-ups become unpaid carers for their own parents, helping w… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: Many grown-ups become unpaid carers for their own parents, helping with medicine and meals, which can leave them tired and stressed. Who acts: Many grown ups, unpaid carers, meals. A sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school wi --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 13 Many grown-ups become unpaid carers for their own parents, helping with medicine and meals, which can leave them tired and stressed. **Who acts:** Many grown ups, unpaid carers, meals · **What happens:** grow, become, help, leave, stress · **To what, where:** unpaid carers, carer 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 (Many grown ups, unpaid carers, meals), 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:13 # text = Many grown-ups become unpaid carers for their own parents, helping with medicine and meals, which can leave them tired and stressed. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 unpaid unpaid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 carers carer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 xcomp _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 helping help VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **become** | present | Many grown ups | unpaid carers for carer's own parents | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **help** | gerund | unpaid carers for carer's own parents *not said here* | | | | | with medicine and meals | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with medicine=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | can | meals | carer | | | | tired *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **stress** | participle | meals *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:13`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When Grandma and Grandad need more help, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/12/) - next →: [When Grandma and Grandad need more help, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/)