A new baby in the house, sentence 2

Parents get very little sleep, so they can be tired, grumpy and forgetful for a few months, and visitors seem to talk only about the baby.

Who acts: Parents, visitors · What happens: get, be, seem, talk · To what, where: little sleep

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 (Parents, visitors), 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	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sleep	amod
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tired	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 tired	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tired	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tired	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 tired	cop
11	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grumpy	punct
13	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tired	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 forgetful	cc
15	forgetful	forgetful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tired	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 months	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 months	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 months	amod
19	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 forgetful	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seem	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seem	cc
22	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seem	nsubj
23	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 get	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 talk	mark
25	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seem	xcomp
26	only	only	ADV	_	25 talk	advmod
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 baby	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 baby	det
29	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 talk	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Parents	little sleep			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus
2	is	can	Parents = parent			tired property	tree rules
3	be		Parents = parent not said here				tree rules
4	be		Parents = parent not said here		month		tree rules
5	seem	present	visitors				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	talk	to-infinitive	visitors not said here			about the baby	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about baby=Topic

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: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): 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.

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