--- title: We're expecting." Soon there is a grey fuzzy scan picture on the fri… — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics description: We're expecting." Soon there is a grey fuzzy scan picture on the fridge, a date circled on the calendar and a list of names nobody can agree on. Who acts: We, grey fuzzy scan picture, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «We're having a baby!» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # We're having a baby!, sentence 4 We're expecting." Soon there is a grey fuzzy scan picture on the fridge, a date circled on the calendar and a list of names nobody can agree on. **Who acts:** We, grey fuzzy scan picture, nobody · **What happens:** expect, be, circle, agree, list · **To what, where:** date, calendar, names · **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 (We, grey fuzzy scan picture, nobody), 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:4 # text = We're expecting." Soon there is a grey fuzzy scan picture on the fridge, a date circled on the calendar and a list of names nobody can agree on. # 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 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 expecting expect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT " _ 8 punct _ _ 6 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 fuzzy fuzzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 scan scan NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 circled circle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 calendar calendar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 31 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **expect** | present · progressive | We | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | a grey fuzzy scan picture on the fridge and a date | | | there | | soon *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **circle** *in a quote* | participle | | a date *not said here* | | the calendar and a list of names | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | can | nobody | names *not said here* | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 5 | **list** *in a quote* | | | names | | | | | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:4`. **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!, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/3/) - next →: [We're having a baby!, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/)