--- title: A homeless person has nowhere safe to live, often because of losing… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: A homeless person has nowhere safe to live, often because of losing a job, a family breaking up or illness. Who acts: homeless person, family. 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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 (homeless person, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:19 # text = A homeless person has nowhere safe to live, often because of losing a job, a family breaking up or illness. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.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 3 det _ _ 2 homeless homeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 obj _ _ 6 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 acl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | a homeless person | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nowhere=Patient | | 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | gerund | a homeless person *not said here* | a job and a family or illness | | | | often *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 4 | **break up** | gerund | a family *not said here* | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:19`. **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: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/18/) - next →: [Bad news, protests and helping others, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/)