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title: Foster carers are grown-ups who look after a child in their own home… — Foster care · tree and pragmatics
description: Foster carers are grown-ups who look after a child in their own home when the child's parents can't. Who acts: grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Foster care» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Foster care, sentence 0

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Foster carers are grown-ups who look after a child in their own home when the child's parents can't.

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**Who acts:** grown ups · **What happens:** be, look

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Foster care» 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 (grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:521-foster-care.lesson:0
# text = Foster carers are grown-ups who look after a child in their own home when the child's parents can't.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 521-foster-care.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	carers	carer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | grow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | grown ups |  |  |  | after a child | in carers's own home | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in home=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:521-foster-care.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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