A new baby, sentence 38
When a new baby arrives, older children often feel jealous or left out; this is normal.
Who acts: new baby, older children, this · What happens: arrive, feel, leave out, be
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 (new baby, older children, this), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrives | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 baby | amod |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrives | nsubj |
| 5 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 children | punct |
| 7 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 children | amod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 feel | advmod |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feel | xcomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 jealous | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 left | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 normal | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 normal | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 normal | cop |
| 18 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feel | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | a new baby | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | older children | jealous, often property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | leave out | participle | older children not said here | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | this | normal 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:38.
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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