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title: Labour can take many hours, so a grandparent or friend often comes t… — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics
description: Labour can take many hours, so a grandparent or friend often comes to look after the older children. Who acts: Labour, grandparent. 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 15

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Labour can take many hours, so a grandparent or friend often comes to look after the older children.

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**Who acts:** Labour, grandparent · **What happens:** take, come, look

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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 (Labour, grandparent), 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:15
# text = Labour can take many hours, so a grandparent or friend often comes to look after the older children.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | can | Labour |  |  |  | hour |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | a grandparent or friend |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | a grandparent or friend *not said here* |  |  |  | after the older children |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:15`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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