--- title: In Melbourne, Mum smiles at Dad over dinner and says, "We've got som… — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics description: In Melbourne, Mum smiles at Dad over dinner and says, "We've got some news. Who acts: Mum, We. 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/3/) [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/) / 3 # We're having a baby!, sentence 3 In Melbourne, Mum smiles at Dad over dinner and says, "We've got some news. **Who acts:** Mum, We · **What happens:** smile, say, get · **To what, where:** news · **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 (Mum, We), 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:3 # text = In Melbourne, Mum smiles at Dad over dinner and says, "We've got some news. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Melbourne Melbourne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Mum mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 smiles smile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 8 over over ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smile** | present | Mum | | | | | at Dad; over dinner; in Melbourne | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in melbourne=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | We | some news | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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!, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/2/) - next →: [We're having a baby!, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/)