--- title: His social worker explains: grown-ups will meet to check that where… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics description: His social worker explains: grown-ups will meet to check that where he lives is still right for him, and he can tell them what he thinks. Who acts: social worker, grown ups, notice. 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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, grown ups, notice), 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:36 # text = His social worker explains: grown-ups will meet to check that where he lives is still right for him, and he can tell them what he thinks. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 6 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 csubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 obj _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | notice's social worker | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **meet** | future | grown ups | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **check** | to-infinitive | grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **live** | present | notice | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | grown ups *not said here* | | | | still | for notice; right *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | notice | | ups *= up* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | present | notice | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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:36`. **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): R7-rel-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, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/35/) - next →: [Living in a children's home, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/37/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/)