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title: Lexi's auntie gets a letter: «Kinship Care Order granted. — Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt · tree and pragmatics
description: Lexi's auntie gets a letter: «Kinship Care Order granted. Who acts: auntie, Kinship Care. A sentence of the lesson «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt, sentence 36

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Lexi's auntie gets a letter: «Kinship Care Order granted.

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**Who acts:** auntie, Kinship Care · **What happens:** get, grant · **To what, where:** letter

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» 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 (auntie, Kinship Care), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.lesson:36
# text = Lexi's auntie gets a letter: «Kinship Care Order granted.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.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): no change
1	Lexi	Lexi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Kinship	kinship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Care	Care	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Order	Order	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Lexi's auntie | a letter |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grant** *in a quote* | participle | Kinship Care | a letter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent letter=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:523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt.lesson:36`.

**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): no change. **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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