--- title: Midwives and doctors check on mum and baby all the way through. — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics description: Midwives and doctors check on mum and baby all the way through. Who acts: Midwives. 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/5/) [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/) / 5 # We're having a baby!, sentence 5 Midwives and doctors check on mum and baby all the way through. **Who acts:** Midwives · **What happens:** check · **To what, where:** way 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 (Midwives), 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:5 # text = Midwives and doctors check on mum and baby all the way through. # 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 Midwives midwife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 check check VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 through through ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **check** | present | Midwives and doctors | all way | | | | on mum and baby | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mum=Location | 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:5`. **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!, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/4/) - next →: [We're having a baby!, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/)