A new baby, sentence 11
It gets better as babies grow, and it helps to tell your teacher why you're tired.
Who acts: greetin, babies, you · What happens: get, grow, help, tell, be · To what, where: teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby» 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 (greetin, babies, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 gets | xcomp |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 grow | mark |
| 5 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 helps | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 helps | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 helps | nsubj |
| 10 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 helps | xcomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 14 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | iobj |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 tired | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 tired | nsubj |
| 17 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tired | cop |
| 18 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | greetin | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | babies | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | present | greetin | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | greetin not said here | your teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | you | tired 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:everyday:504-a-new-baby.lesson:11.
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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