--- title: You should always ask before touching someone's bump. — We're having a baby! · tree and pragmatics description: You should always ask before touching someone's bump. Who acts: You, someone. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # We're having a baby!, sentence 9 You should always ask before touching someone's bump. **Who acts:** You, someone · **What happens:** ask, touch, bump · **To what, where:** bump 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 (You, someone), 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:9 # text = You should always ask before touching someone's bump. # 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 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 always always ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 bump bump NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should | You | | | | | always *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **touch** | gerund | You *not said here* | someone's bump | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bump=Co-Theme | | 3 | **bump** | | someone | | | | | | nom bump «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:9`. **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!, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/8/) - next →: [We're having a baby!, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/)