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title: Auntie says, «It means a judge says I'm the one who looks after you… — Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt · tree and pragmatics
description: Auntie says, «It means a judge says I'm the one who looks after you now, properly, on paper.» And some of it is just ordinary family life. Who acts: Auntie, It, judge, one. A sentence of the lesson «Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt, sentence 38

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Auntie says, «It means a judge says I'm the one who looks after you now, properly, on paper.» And some of it is just ordinary family life.

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**Who acts:** Auntie, It, judge, one, some · **What happens:** say, mean, be, look · **To what, where:** one, ordinary family life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, It, judge, one), 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:38
# text = Auntie says, «It means a judge says I'm the one who looks after you now, properly, on paper.» And some of it is just ordinary family life.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Auntie	auntie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
26	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Auntie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | a judge |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Auntie | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | present | the one |  |  |  | after you; now | on paper; properly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on paper=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | some | ordinary family life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:38`.

**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 ×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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