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title: Kayden's foster family has a fat old Labrador called Biscuit who sle… — Foster care · tree and pragmatics
description: Kayden's foster family has a fat old Labrador called Biscuit who sleeps on Kayden's bed from the first night. Who acts: foster family, fat old Labrador. 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 26

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Kayden's foster family has a fat old Labrador called Biscuit who sleeps on Kayden's bed from the first night.

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**Who acts:** foster family, fat old Labrador · **What happens:** have, call, sleep · **To what, where:** fat old Labrador, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (foster family, fat old Labrador), 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:26
# text = Kayden's foster family has a fat old Labrador called Biscuit who sleeps on Kayden's bed from the first night.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Kayden	Kayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Labrador	labrador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	Biscuit	Biscuit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Kayden	Kayden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | Kayden's foster family | a fat old Labrador |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labrador=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a fat old Labrador *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | present | a fat old Labrador |  |  | Kayden's bed | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:26`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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