--- title: Families have hard choices to make: a carer at home, a care home, or… — When Grandma and Grandad need more help · tree and pragmatics description: Families have hard choices to make: a carer at home, a care home, or looking after Grandma themselves. Who acts: Families. A sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 3 Families have hard choices to make: a carer at home, a care home, or looking after Grandma themselves. **Who acts:** Families · **What happens:** have, make, look · **To what, where:** hard choices 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 (Families), 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:3 # text = Families have hard choices to make: a carer at home, a care home, or looking after Grandma themselves. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 choices choice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 carer carer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 15 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Grandma Grandma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 20 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:appos 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Families | hard choices | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Families *not said here* | hard choices *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **look** | gerund | Families *not said here* | | | | after Grandma Families | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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 ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When Grandma and Grandad need more help, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/1/) - next →: [When Grandma and Grandad need more help, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/)