Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 6
A baby must never be shaken, because shaking can cause serious brain damage.
Who acts: shaking · What happens: not shake, cause · To what, where: baby, serious brain damage
This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» of the everyday 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 (shaking), 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 | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 shaken | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 shaken | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shaken | aux:pass |
| 6 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shaking | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 cause | mark |
| 9 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cause | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cause | aux |
| 11 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shaken | advcl |
| 12 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 damage | amod |
| 13 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 damage | compound |
| 14 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cause | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shaken | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shake | must · passive | a baby | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cause | can | shaking | serious brain damage | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition damage=Patient |
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:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.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): R8-pos-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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