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title: Many parents wait about three months before telling people, because… — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics
description: Many parents wait about three months before telling people, because the early weeks are the most uncertain. Who acts: Many parents, early weeks. 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 clau
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# We're having a baby!, sentence 2

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Many parents wait about three months before telling people, because the early weeks are the most uncertain.

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**Who acts:** Many parents, early weeks · **What happens:** wait, tell, be · **To what, where:** people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many parents, early weeks), 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:2
# text = Many parents wait about three months before telling people, because the early weeks are the most uncertain.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **wait** | present | Many parents |  |  |  | month |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Many parents *not said here* |  | people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the early weeks |  |  |  |  | uncertain *property* | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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/).

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