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title: A children's home is a house where a few children live, looked after… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics
description: A children's home is a house where a few children live, looked after by staff who work in shifts. Who acts: home, few children, staff. 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 38

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A children's home is a house where a few children live, looked after by staff who work in shifts.

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**Who acts:** home, few children, staff · **What happens:** be, live, look after, work · **To what, where:** house

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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 (home, few children, staff), 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:38
# text = A children's home is a house where a few children live, looked after by staff who work in shifts.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	staff	staff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:agent	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	shifts	shift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | a children's home | a house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | a few children |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look after** | participle |  | a house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **work** | present | staff |  |  |  |  | in shifts | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in shift=Theme |

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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:38`.

**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. **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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