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title: A young carer is a child who helps look after a family member; broth… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: A young carer is a child who helps look after a family member; brothers and sisters of children who need lots of help often feel invisible, and their feelings matter too. Who acts: young carer, child, children, lots. A sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and 
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# Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 11

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A young carer is a child who helps look after a family member; brothers and sisters of children who need lots of help often feel invisible, and their feelings matter too.

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**Who acts:** young carer, child, children, lots, feelings · **What happens:** be, help, look, need, feel, matter · **To what, where:** child, lots

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection 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 (young carer, child, children, lots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:11
# text = A young carer is a child who helps look after a family member; brothers and sisters of children who need lots of help often feel invisible, and their feelings matter too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	carer	carer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
27	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is a** | present | a young carer | a child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | a child |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  | after a family member |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **need** | present | children | lots of help |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** *not said to happen* | infinitive | lots of help *not said here* |  |  |  |  | invisible, often *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **matter** | present | carer's feelings |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:11`.

**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 ×2. **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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