--- title: Jolene's social worker visits with forms: «We are looking for a fost… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics description: Jolene's social worker visits with forms: «We are looking for a foster family for you.» «What if they don't like me?» Jolene asks. Who acts: social worker, We, visits, Jolene. 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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 (social worker, We, visits, Jolene), 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:32 # text = Jolene's social worker visits with forms: «We are looking for a foster family for you.» «What if they don't like me?» Jolene asks. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Jolene Jolene PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod:poss 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod 4 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound 5 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 10 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:parataxis 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 31 Jolene Jolene PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **visit** | | Jolene's social worker | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** *in a quote* | present · progressive | We | | | | | for a foster family for you | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for family=Theme | | 3 | **not** **like** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | visits *= visit* | Jolene | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Jolene | forms | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | 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:32`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/30/) - next →: [Living in a children's home, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/33/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/)