--- title: An orphan is a child whose parents have died; most children in care… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics description: An orphan is a child whose parents have died; most children in care have living parents who can't look after them right now. Who acts: orphan, parents, most children, living parents. A sentence of the lesson «Living in a children's home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Living in a children's home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/) / 42 # Living in a children's home, sentence 42 An orphan is a child whose parents have died; most children in care have living parents who can't look after them right now. **Who acts:** orphan, parents, most children, living parents · **What happens:** be, die, have, live, not look · **To what, where:** child, living parents 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 (orphan, parents, most children, living parents), 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:42 # text = An orphan is a child whose parents have died; most children in care have living parents who can't look after them right now. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 orphan orphan NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 19 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 right right ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a orphan | a child | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **die** | present · perfect | parents | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **have** | present | most children in care | living parents | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient | | 4 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **look** | can | living parents | | | | after children *= child*; now | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:42`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Living in a children's home, 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/41/) - next →: [Living in a children's home, 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/43/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/)