A new baby in the house, sentence 8

Parents of a new baby are very tired, and tired people can snap or forget things; it is not a change in how they feel about you.

Who acts: Parents, tired people, stomach · What happens: be, snap, forget, not be, feel · To what, where: things, change

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, tired people, 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	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tired	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 baby	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 baby	amod
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Parents	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tired	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 tired	advmod
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 snap	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 snap	cc
11	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 snap	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 snap	aux
14	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tired	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 forget	cc
16	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 snap	conj
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 forget	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 change	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 change	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 change	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 change	det
23	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tired	parataxis
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	27 feel	mark
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 feel	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 feel	nsubj
27	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 change	acl
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 feel	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tired	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Parents of a new baby		tired property	tree rules
2	snap	can	tired people			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	forget	infinitive	tired people not said here	things		tree rules
4	not is a	present	stomach	a change		tree rules
5	feel	present	Parents = parent		about you	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about you=Location

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:8.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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