--- title: Home is meant to be the steady place, so when it wobbles, with a row… — When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babi… · tree and pragmatics description: Home is meant to be the steady place, so when it wobbles, with a row on Christmas Day, a mum in hospital, a new baby or a move nobody is sure about, a child can feel the ground shift under his feet. Who acts: Home, nobody, child. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Home, nobody, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:0 # text = Home is meant to be the steady place, so when it wobbles, with a row on Christmas Day, a mum in hospital, a new baby or a move nobody is sure about, a child can feel the ground shift under his feet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wobbles wobble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 20 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 flat _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:appos 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det 32 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 36 about about ADP IN _ 35 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advmod 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:ccomp 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:nsubj 44 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 45 under under ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · passive | | Home | | Christmas | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | the steady place | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wobble** | present | Home | | | | | with a row | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | nobody | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | can | a child | the ground shift | | child's feet | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shift=Theme under foot=Location | 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. **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:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:0`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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. 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