Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 13

Babies born early often need a special warm hospital cot to help them breathe and feed; most grow up strong, though sometimes it is harder.

Who acts: Babies, plant, cot · What happens: bear, need, help, breathe, feed, grow up · To what, where: Babies, special warm hospital cot, plant

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 (Babies, plant, cot), 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	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
2	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Babies	acl
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 born	advmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cot	det
7	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cot	amod
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cot	amod
9	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cot	compound
10	cot	cot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 help	mark
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cot	acl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 help	obj
14	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 help	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 feed	cc
16	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 breathe	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grow	punct
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 grow	advmod
19	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 grow	compound:prt
21	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grow	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 harder	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 harder	mark
24	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 harder	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 harder	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 harder	cop
27	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 need	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		Babies not said here	early property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	need	present	Babies	a special warm hospital cot	often property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cot=Theme
3	help	to-infinitive	Babies not said here	plant		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	breathe	infinitive	plant not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	feed	infinitive	plant not said here			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
6	grow up	present			strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	present	cot		hard, sometimes 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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:13.

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): 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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