--- title: Official letters about children in care use formal words; a social w… — Living in a children's home · tree and pragmatics description: Official letters about children in care use formal words; a social worker can explain them, and the child's views are asked for. Who acts: Official letters, social worker, child. 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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 (Official letters, social worker, 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:48 # text = Official letters about children in care use formal words; a social worker can explain them, and the child's views are asked for. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 parataxis _ _ 8 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 views view NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 24 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | infinitive | Official letters about children in care | formal words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | can | a social worker | children *= child* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | the child's views | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **view** | | the child | | | | | | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:48`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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, 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/47/) - next →: [Living in a children's home, 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/49/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/520-living-in-a-childrens-home/)