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title: A young carer is a child who helps look after an ill or disabled fam… — When nobody sits with you: making friends again · tree and pragmatics
description: A young carer is a child who helps look after an ill or disabled family member; young carers' groups exist, and friends can visit instead of always being visited. Who acts: young carer, child, groups, friends. A sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» of the reflecti
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# When nobody sits with you: making friends again, sentence 17

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A young carer is a child who helps look after an ill or disabled family member; young carers' groups exist, and friends can visit instead of always being visited.

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**Who acts:** young carer, child, groups, friends · **What happens:** be, help, look, exist, visit · **To what, where:** child, ill family member

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» 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, groups, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:17
# text = A young carer is a child who helps look after an ill or disabled family member; young carers' groups exist, and friends can visit instead of always being visited.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
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	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
12	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	disabled	disable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	carers	carer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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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* | a ill family member |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **exist** | present | young carers's groups |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **visit** | can | friends |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **visit** | gerund · passive | friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V» |

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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:023-when-nobody-sits-with-you-making-friends-again.lesson:17`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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