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title: Children in kinship care sometimes call a grandparent «Mum» by mista… — Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt · tree and pragmatics
description: Children in kinship care sometimes call a grandparent «Mum» by mistake; it's okay and nobody is to blame. Who acts: Children, child, nobody. 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 pragmatic
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# Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt, sentence 47

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Children in kinship care sometimes call a grandparent «Mum» by mistake; it's okay and nobody is to blame.

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**Who acts:** Children, child, nobody · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** grandparent · **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 (Children, child, nobody), 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:47
# text = Children in kinship care sometimes call a grandparent «Mum» by mistake; it's okay and nobody is to blame.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	kinship	kinship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | Children in kinship care | a grandparent and Mum |  |  |  | by mistake; sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandparent=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | child |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  | blame *property* | 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:47`.

**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): 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/).

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