--- title: "It's time, we're going to the hospital" means labour has started an… — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics description: "It's time, we're going to the hospital" means labour has started and the baby is getting ready to be born. Who acts: date, we, going, labour. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [We're having a baby!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/) / 14 # We're having a baby!, sentence 14 "It's time, we're going to the hospital" means labour has started and the baby is getting ready to be born. **Who acts:** date, we, going, labour, baby · **What happens:** be, go, mean, start, get, bear · **To what, where:** time, hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (date, we, going, labour), 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:14 # text = "It's time, we're going to the hospital" means labour has started and the baby is getting ready to be 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): R5-strong ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 csubj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 started start VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 22 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | date | time | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we | | | the hospital | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **mean** | present | going | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **start** | present · perfect | labour | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **get** | present · progressive | the baby | | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **bear** | to-infinitive · passive | the baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | 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](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:14`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [We're having a baby!, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/13/) - next →: [We're having a baby!, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/)