A new baby in the house, sentence 1

It has a tiny stomach, so it needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, and crying is the only way it can say what it needs.

Who acts: baby · What happens: have, need, feed, cry, be, say · To what, where: tiny stomach, only way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby in the house» 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 (baby), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stomach	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stomach	amod
5	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 needs	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 needs	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 needs	nsubj
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
10	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 needs	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 two	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hours	nummod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 three	cc
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 two	conj
15	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 feeding	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 day	punct
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hours	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 night	cc
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crying	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crying	cc
22	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 feeding	conj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 way	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
25	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needs	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 say	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 say	aux
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 way	acl:relcl
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 needs	obj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 needs	nsubj
32	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 say	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	baby	a tiny stomach		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient
2	need	present	baby			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	feed	gerund			hour	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a not said to happen	present	baby not said here	the only way		tree rules
6	say speech: assert	can	baby	the only way not said here		tree rules
7	need	present	baby			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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:019-a-new-baby-in-the-house.lesson:1.

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.

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