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title: Children can ask their social worker questions, and their views are… — Foster care · tree and pragmatics
description: Children can ask their social worker questions, and their views are listened to. Who acts: Children, family. 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 46

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Children can ask their social worker questions, and their views are listened to.

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**Who acts:** Children, family · **What happens:** ask, listen to, question, view · **To what, where:** worker questions, views

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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, family), 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:46
# text = Children can ask their social worker questions, and their views are listened to.
# 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
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
6	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | Children | family's worker questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 2 | **listen to** | present · passive |  | family's views |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **question** |  | family |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **view** |  | family |  |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=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:46`.

**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. **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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