A new baby in the house, sentence 7
Crying is a baby's only way to say it is hungry, wet, cold or tired, and the night waking slowly gets better over a few months.
Who acts: stomach, night · What happens: cry, be, say, wake, get · To what, where: only way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stomach, night), 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 | Crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 baby | case |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 say | mark |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hungry | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hungry | cop |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 say | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wet | punct |
| 14 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hungry | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cold | punct |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hungry | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 tired | cc |
| 18 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hungry | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gets | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gets | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gets | nsubj |
| 23 | waking | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 night | acl |
| 24 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 25 gets | advmod |
| 25 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | conj |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 gets | xcomp |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 months | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 months | det |
| 29 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 months | amod |
| 30 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 better | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a baby's only way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | stomach | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | stomach not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | be | stomach not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | be | stomach not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | wake | gerund | the night not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 9 | get | present | the night | good, slowly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:7.
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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