A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 0
A new baby changes a family: babies cry because crying is the only way they can say they are hungry, tired or uncomfortable, their necks are not strong yet, and they need a lot of sleep and care.
Who acts: new baby, babies, crying, they, necks · What happens: change, cry, be, say, not be, need · To what, where: family, only way, lot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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, babies, crying, they), 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 | 3 baby | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 baby | amod |
| 3 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changes | nsubj |
| 4 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changes | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 cry | punct |
| 8 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cry | nsubj |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 changes | parataxis |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 way | mark |
| 11 | crying | crying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | advcl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 say | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | aux |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 way | acl:relcl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hungry | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hungry | cop |
| 21 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 say | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tired | punct |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hungry | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 uncomfortable | cc |
| 25 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hungry | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cry | punct |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 necks | nmod:poss |
| 28 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cry | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 strong | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 strong | advmod |
| 31 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cry | conj |
| 32 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 31 strong | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 need | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 need | cc |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 need | nsubj |
| 36 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 strong | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 lot | det |
| 38 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 need | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 sleep | case |
| 40 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lot | nmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 care | cc |
| 42 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sleep | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | a new baby | a family | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | babies | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | crying | the only way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | can | they | the only way not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | present | they | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | they not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | be | they not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | not is | present | babies not said here | yet | strong property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | need | present | necks = neck | a lot of sleep and care | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme |
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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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