--- title: A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnan… — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics description: A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault. Who acts: miscarriage, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miscarriage, it), 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:18 # text = A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 miscarriage miscarriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 pregnancy pregnancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 17 quite quite ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | present | a miscarriage | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | a miscarriage *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **die** | present | a miscarriage *not said here* | | | | | in pregnancy; early *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in pregnancy=Attribute | | 5 | **happen** | present | it | | | | | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | | nobody's fault | | | | | tree rules | 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:18`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [We're having a baby!, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/17/) - next →: [We're having a baby!, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/)