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title: She helps with the hoovering, and tells her teacher when Nana seems… — Kinship care: living with Gran or an aunt · tree and pragmatics
description: She helps with the hoovering, and tells her teacher when Nana seems poorly. Who acts: Kerry, Nana. 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 7

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She helps with the hoovering, and tells her teacher when Nana seems poorly.

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**Who acts:** Kerry, Nana · **What happens:** help, tell, seem · **To what, where:** teacher · **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 (Kerry, Nana), 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:7
# text = She helps with the hoovering, and tells her teacher when Nana seems poorly.
# 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	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hoovering	hoover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	Nana	Nana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Kerry |  |  |  |  | with the hoovering | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hoover=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Kerry *not said here* |  | Kerry's teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 3 | **seem** | present | Nana |  |  |  |  | poorly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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:7`.

**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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