We're having a baby!, sentence 2

Many parents wait about three months before telling people, because the early weeks are the most uncertain.

Who acts: Many parents, early weeks · What happens: wait, tell, be · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «We're having a baby!» of the adult life 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 (Many parents, early weeks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 parents	amod
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	nsubj
3	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 three	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 months	nummod
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	obl
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 telling	mark
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wait	advcl
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 telling	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 uncertain	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 weeks	det
13	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weeks	amod
14	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 uncertain	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 uncertain	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 uncertain	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 uncertain	advmod
18	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wait	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	Many parents		month		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	Many parents not said here	people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
3	is	present	the early weeks			uncertain property	tree rules

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, 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:adult-life:018-were-having-a-baby.lesson:2.

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. 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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