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title: His key worker sits with him and doesn't say «never mind». — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: His key worker sits with him and doesn't say «never mind». Who acts: key worker. 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 every clause.
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# Living in a children's home, sentence 24

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His key worker sits with him and doesn't say «never mind».

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**Who acts:** key worker · **What happens:** sit, not say, not mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (key worker), 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:24
# text = His key worker sits with him and doesn't say «never mind».
# 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): no change
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **sit** | present | Luca's key worker |  |  |  |  | with Luca | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Luca's key worker *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:24`.

**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/).

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