--- title: Every Saturday Josiah's foster mom calls up the stairs, «Y'all want… — Foster care · tree and pragmatics description: Every Saturday Josiah's foster mom calls up the stairs, «Y'all want pancakes?» («y'all» means you all, in the southern USA). Who acts: foster mom, Y'all. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Foster care](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/) / 6 # Foster care, sentence 6 Every Saturday Josiah's foster mom calls up the stairs, «Y'all want pancakes?» («y'all» means you all, in the southern USA). **Who acts:** foster mom, Y'all · **What happens:** call up, want, mean · **To what, where:** stairs, pancakes, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 mom, Y'all), 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:6 # text = Every Saturday Josiah's foster mom calls up the stairs, «Y'all want pancakes?» («y'all» means you all, in the southern USA). # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Josiah Josiah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 mom mom NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Y'all y'all PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 pancakes pancake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 20 y'all y'all NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 nmod:unmarked _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call up** *speech: assert* | present | every Saturday Josiah's foster mom | the stairs | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stair=Recipient | | 2 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Y'all | pancakes | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pancake=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | y'all | you | | | | in the southern USA | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot you=Theme in usa=Attribute | 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:6`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/5/) - next →: [Foster care, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/)