--- title: A kid at school asks Aaliyah, «Where's your mum and dad?» «I live in… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics description: A kid at school asks Aaliyah, «Where's your mum and dad?» «I live in a home.» «What, like an orphan?» Aaliyah feels small. Who acts: kid, Aaliyah. A sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/15/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Living in a children's home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/) / 15 # Living in a children's home, sentence 15 A kid at school asks Aaliyah, «Where's your mum and dad?» «I live in a home.» «What, like an orphan?» Aaliyah feels small. **Who acts:** kid, Aaliyah · **What happens:** ask, be, live, feel · **To what, where:** Aaliyah, mum, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (kid, Aaliyah), 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:15 # text = A kid at school asks Aaliyah, «Where's your mum and dad?» «I live in a home.» «What, like an orphan?» Aaliyah feels small. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Aaliyah Aaliyah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 9 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 10 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 28 like like SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 orphan orphan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ _ 31 ? ? PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 33 Aaliyah Aaliyah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 35 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 . . 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a kid at school | | Aaliyah | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | your mum and dad | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** *in a quote* | present | a kid at school *= kid* | | | a home | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location | | 4 | **feel** | present | Aaliyah | | | | | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:everyday:520-living-in-a-childrens-home.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Living in a children's home, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/14/) - next →: [Living in a children's home, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/)