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title: If you are left in charge of a younger sibling for a few minutes, ke… — A new baby, looking after siblings and living wi… · tree and pragmatics
description: If you are left in charge of a younger sibling for a few minutes, keep them in sight and call the adult if anything goes wrong. Who acts: you, anything. A sentence of the lesson «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 10

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If you are left in charge of a younger sibling for a few minutes, keep them in sight and call the adult if anything goes wrong.

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**Who acts:** you, anything · **What happens:** leave, keep, call, go, charge · **To what, where:** you, charge, children, sight, adult, younger sibling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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 (you, anything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:10
# text = If you are left in charge of a younger sibling for a few minutes, keep them in sight and call the adult if anything goes wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 095-babies-siblings-and-parents.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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	_
26	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- 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 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  | charge of a younger sibling | minute |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in charge=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | children *= child* |  | sight |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in sight=Location |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | the adult |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | anything |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **charge** |  |  | a younger sibling |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:10`.

**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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