Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 6

A baby starts when a tiny cell from the mother and a tiny cell from the father join together; before that, the baby did not exist as a person.

Who acts: baby, tiny cell · What happens: start, join, not exist · To what, where: that

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 (baby, tiny cell), 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	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starts	nsubj
3	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 join	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cell	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cell	amod
7	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 join	nsubj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 mother	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mother	det
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cell	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cell	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cell	det
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cell	amod
14	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cell	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 father	det
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cell	nmod
18	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 starts	advcl
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 join	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 exist	punct
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 exist	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 that	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 baby	det
25	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 exist	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 exist	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 exist	advmod
28	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 starts	parataxis
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 person	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 person	det
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 exist	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 starts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	start	present	a baby			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	join	present	a tiny cell from the mother and a tiny cell from the father		together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	not exist	past · do-support	the baby	that	as a person	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before that=Location

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: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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