--- title: A midwife is a nurse trained to care for women and babies during pre… — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics description: A midwife is a nurse trained to care for women and babies during pregnancy, birth and the first days after. Who acts: midwife, nurse. 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/16/) [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/) / 16 # We're having a baby!, sentence 16 A midwife is a nurse trained to care for women and babies during pregnancy, birth and the first days after. **Who acts:** midwife, nurse · **What happens:** be, train, care · **To what, where:** nurse 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 (midwife, nurse), 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:16 # text = A midwife is a nurse trained to care for women and babies during pregnancy, birth and the first days after. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 midwife midwife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 during during ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 pregnancy pregnancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 amod _ _ 20 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 21 after after ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a midwife | a nurse | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **train** | participle | | a nurse *not said here* | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 3 | **care** | to-infinitive | a nurse *not said here* | | | | during pregnancy and birth and the first days | for women and babies | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for woman=Theme | 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:16`. **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/). - ← previous: [We're having a baby!, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/15/) - next →: [We're having a baby!, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/)