A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 6
To hold a baby, sit down, ask an adult first and support the baby's head, because its neck is not strong yet.
Who acts: neck · What happens: hold, sit down, ask, support, not be · To what, where: baby, adult, head
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 (neck), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 hold | mark |
| 2 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hold | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sit | punct |
| 6 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 hold | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 sit | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 sit | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 adult | det |
| 11 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | obj |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 ask | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 support | cc |
| 14 | support | support | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 hold | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 baby | det |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 baby | case |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 support | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hold | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 strong | mark |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 strong | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 strong | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 strong | advmod |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hold | advcl |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 25 strong | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | to-infinitive | a baby | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit down | infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | a adult | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | support | infinitive | the baby's head | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not is | present | head's neck | yet | strong 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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.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): R5-strong ×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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