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title: «Then we keep looking till we find the right one, and you get to mee… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: «Then we keep looking till we find the right one, and you get to meet them first.» Maddox gets a letter: «Formal notice: placement review hearing. Who acts: we, you, Maddox. A sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Living in a children's home, sentence 33

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«Then we keep looking till we find the right one, and you get to meet them first.» Maddox gets a letter: «Formal notice: placement review hearing.

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**Who acts:** we, you, Maddox · **What happens:** keep, look, find, get, meet · **To what, where:** right one, visits, letter

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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 (we, you, Maddox), 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:33
# text = «Then we keep looking till we find the right one, and you get to meet them first.» Maddox gets a letter: «Formal notice: placement review hearing.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	xcomp	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
22	Maddox	Maddox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	Formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	placement	placement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	review	review	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | present | we | the right one |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | visits *= visit* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **get** | present | Maddox | a letter |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus |

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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:33`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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