A new baby in the house, sentence 4

Babies join families in other ways too: some children are adopted for good, and some foster children come to stay for a while.

Who acts: Babies, foster children · What happens: join, adopt, come, stay · To what, where: families, other ways, children

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, foster children), 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 join	nsubj
2	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 join	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ways	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ways	amod
6	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 join	obl
7	too	too	ADV	_	2 join	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 join	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 adopted	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 adopted	aux:pass
12	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 join	parataxis
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 good	case
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 adopted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 children	det
18	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 children	compound
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 come	nsubj
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 adopted	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 stay	mark
22	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 while	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 while	det
25	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stay	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 join	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	present	Babies	families	other ways			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient
2	adopt	present · passive		some children			for good	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	come	present	some foster children					tree rules
4	stay	to-infinitive	some foster children not said here			while		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:4.

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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