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title: When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nin… — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics
description: When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nine months before it is born. Who acts: woman, baby. A sentence of the lesson «We're having a baby!» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# We're having a baby!, sentence 0

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When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nine months before it is born.

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**Who acts:** woman, baby · **What happens:** be, grow, bear · **To what, where:** womb

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This is a sentence of the lesson «We're having a baby!» of the adult life 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 (woman, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:018-were-having-a-baby.lesson:0
# text = When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nine months before it is born.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 018-were-having-a-baby.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a woman |  |  |  |  | pregnant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | a baby |  |  | baby's womb | month |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside womb=Location |
| 3 | **bear** | present · passive |  | womb |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:018-were-having-a-baby.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): no change. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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