A new baby in the house, sentence 17
Babies feed from the breast or a bottle, often for twenty minutes or more, and they need calm to settle.
Who acts: Babies, breast · What happens: feed, need, settle · To what, where: breast, calm
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, breast), 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 feed | nsubj |
| 2 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 breast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 breast | det |
| 5 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feed | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 bottle | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bottle | det |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breast | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 minutes | punct |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 minutes | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 minutes | case |
| 12 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 minutes | nummod |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feed | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 minutes | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 need | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 need | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 need | nsubj |
| 19 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feed | conj |
| 20 | calm | calm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 need | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 settle | mark |
| 22 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 calm | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | Babies | the breast or a bottle | minute | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | need | present | breast | calm | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot calm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | settle | to-infinitive | breast not said here | calm not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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): no change. 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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