--- title: Amara's social worker tells her, «Your foster family would like you… — Foster care · tree and pragmatics description: Amara's social worker tells her, «Your foster family would like you to stay with them long-term, until you're grown up.» «Like... forever?» Amara whispers. Who acts: social worker, foster family, Amara. 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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 (social worker, foster family, Amara), 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:34 # text = Amara's social worker tells her, «Your foster family would like you to stay with them long-term, until you're grown up.» «Like... forever?» Amara whispers. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Amara Amara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 9 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 until until SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 31 Like like INTJ UH _ 26 discourse _ _ 32 ... ... PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 forever forever ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 36 Amara Amara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 whispers whisper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Amara's social worker | | Amara | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **like** *in a quote* | would | Your foster family | Amara | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stay** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Your foster family *not said here* | long term | | | | with family | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | | 4 | **grow up** *in a quote* | present · passive | | Amara | | | | forever *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | Amara | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:521-foster-care.lesson:34`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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: [Foster care, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/33/) - next →: [Foster care, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/35/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/)