--- title: It has a tiny stomach, so it needs feeding every two or three hours,… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics description: It has a tiny stomach, so it needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, and crying is the only way it can say what it needs. Who acts: baby. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:019-a-new-baby-in-the-house.lesson:1 # text = It has a tiny stomach, so it needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, and crying is the only way it can say what it needs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 019-a-new-baby-in-the-house.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 ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 obj _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 conj _ _ 15 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obj 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:acl:relcl 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | baby | a tiny stomach | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient | | 2 | **need** | present | baby | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **feed** | gerund | | | | | hour | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *not said to happen* | present | baby *not said here* | the only way | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | baby | the only way *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **need** | present | baby | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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:019-a-new-baby-in-the-house.lesson:1`. **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 ×2. **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: [A new baby in the house, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/0/) - next →: [A new baby in the house, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/)