A new baby, sentence 48
Helping with the baby, like choosing a name or holding her, helps older kids bond.
Who acts: Helping, older kids · What happens: help, choose, hold, bond · To what, where: name, baby, older kids
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 (Helping, older kids), 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 | Helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 helps | csubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 baby | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Helping | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 choosing | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 choosing | mark |
| 7 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Helping | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 choosing | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 holding | cc |
| 11 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 choosing | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 holding | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 helps | punct |
| 14 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 kids | amod |
| 16 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 helps | obj |
| 17 | bond | bond | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 helps | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | gerund | with the baby | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with baby=Theme | |||||
| 2 | choose | gerund | a name | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | baby | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help | present | Helping | older kids | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent kid=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bond | infinitive | older kids not said here | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:48.
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 ×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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