A new baby in the house, sentence 16
Babies wear nappies, which are changed six to ten times a day, and nappy cream stops sore skin.
Who acts: Babies, nappy cream · What happens: wear, change, stop · To what, where: nappies, sore skin
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 (Babies, nappy cream), 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 | Babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nappies | nappy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wear | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 changed | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 changed | aux:pass |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nappies | acl:relcl |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 ten | case |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 six | nmod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stops | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stops | cc |
| 16 | nappy | nappy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cream | compound |
| 17 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stops | nsubj |
| 18 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wear | conj |
| 19 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 skin | amod |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stops | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | Babies | nappies | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent nappy=Source | ||||
| 2 | change | present · passive | nappies | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | nappy cream | sore skin | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality skin=Eventuality |
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:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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