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title: Children in foster care often move a lot, which makes trust hard; sm… — Foster care · tree and pragmatics
description: Children in foster care often move a lot, which makes trust hard; small kind acts help trust grow. Who acts: Children, lot, small kind acts. 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 39

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Children in foster care often move a lot, which makes trust hard; small kind acts help trust grow.

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**Who acts:** Children, lot, small kind acts · **What happens:** move, make, help, trust, grow · **To what, where:** lot, trust

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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 (Children, lot, small kind acts), 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:39
# text = Children in foster care often move a lot, which makes trust hard; small kind acts help trust grow.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **move** | present | Children in foster care | a lot |  |  |  | often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | a lot | trust |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trust=Product |
| 3 | **help** | present | small kind acts |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **trust** | infinitive | small kind acts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** | infinitive | small kind acts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:39`.

**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, R7-rel-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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