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title: Some of those children live in a children's home: an ordinary-lookin… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of those children live in a children's home: an ordinary-looking house with a few children and grown-up staff who look after them in shifts. Who acts: Some, grown staff. A sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Living in a children's home, sentence 1

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Some of those children live in a children's home: an ordinary-looking house with a few children and grown-up staff who look after them in shifts.

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**Who acts:** Some, grown staff · **What happens:** live, look, grow up · **To what, where:** home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» of the everyday 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 (Some, grown staff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:1
# text = Some of those children live in a children's home: an ordinary-looking house with a few children and grown-up staff who look after them in shifts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 520-living-in-a-childrens-home.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=22:compound
25	staff	staff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Some |  |  | a children's home |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | present | grown staff |  |  |  | after children *= child* | in shifts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in shift=Theme |

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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.

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**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:everyday:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:1`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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