A new baby in the house, sentence 6
A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.
Who acts: newborn baby, stomach · What happens: need, feed, be
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 (newborn baby, stomach), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 baby | det |
| 2 | newborn | newborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 baby | amod |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 needs | xcomp |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 two | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hours | nummod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 three | cc |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 two | conj |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feeding | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 day | punct |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hours | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 night | cc |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tiny | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 tiny | mark |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tiny | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tiny | cop |
| 20 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 needs | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | a newborn baby | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feed not said to happen | gerund | a newborn baby not said here | hour | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | leave's stomach | tiny property | tree rules |
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:6.
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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