Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 0

Every person who ever lived started as something smaller than a full stop, grew for about nine months inside their mother's womb, and was then born helpless, unable even to hold up their own head.

Who acts: person · What happens: live, start, grow, bear, hold up · To what, where: womb, own head

This is a sentence of the lesson «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics 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 (person), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 lived	advmod
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 person	acl:relcl
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 something	case
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 started	obl
9	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 something	amod
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 stop	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stop	det
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stop	amod
13	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smaller	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 started	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 months	case
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 nine	advmod
18	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 months	nummod
19	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grew	obl
20	inside	inside	ADP	_	24 womb	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 womb	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 mother	case
24	womb	womb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 born	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 born	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 born	aux:pass
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 born	advmod
29	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 grew	conj
30	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 born	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 unable	punct
32	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 helpless	conj
33	even	even	ADV	_	35 hold	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 hold	mark
35	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 unable	xcomp
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 hold	compound:prt
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 head	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 head	amod
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hold	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 started	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	every person			ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	past	every person				as something	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	grow	past	every person not said here		their mother's womb	month		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside womb=Location
4	bear	past · passive	every person not said here			then	helpless property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
5	hold up	to-infinitive	every person not said here	their own head				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot head=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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-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.

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