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title: The child's wishes and feelings will be sought.» He has no idea what… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: The child's wishes and feelings will be sought.» He has no idea what it means. Who acts: notice, idea, child. 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 35

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The child's wishes and feelings will be sought.» He has no idea what it means.

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**Who acts:** notice, idea, child · **What happens:** seek, have, mean, wish · **To what, where:** wishes, idea · **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 (notice, idea, child), 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:35
# text = The child's wishes and feelings will be sought.» He has no idea what it means.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **seek** | future · passive |  | the child's wishes and feelings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | notice | no idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 3 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | idea | no idea |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 4 | **wish** |  | the child |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:35`.

**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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