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title: Every child has the right to be safe and treated fairly; if a placem… — Foster care · tree and pragmatics
description: Every child has the right to be safe and treated fairly; if a placement isn't safe, tell a social worker or teacher. Who acts: child, placement. 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 42

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Every child has the right to be safe and treated fairly; if a placement isn't safe, tell a social worker or teacher.

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**Who acts:** child, placement · **What happens:** have, be, treat, not be, tell · **To what, where:** right, social worker · **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 (child, placement), 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:42
# text = Every child has the right to be safe and treated fairly; if a placement isn't safe, tell a social worker or teacher.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	placement	placement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | every child | the right |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | every child *not said here* | the right *not said here* |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **treat** | participle | every child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a placement |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | a social worker or teacher |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient |

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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:42`.

**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): R7-rel-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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