--- title: Godparents are chosen at a christening to take a special interest in… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics description: Godparents are chosen at a christening to take a special interest in the child as it grows. Who acts: christening. A sentence of the lesson «A new baby in the house» 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/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/11/) [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/) / [A new baby in the house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/) / 11 # A new baby in the house, sentence 11 Godparents are chosen at a christening to take a special interest in the child as it grows. **Who acts:** christening · **What happens:** choose, take, grow · **To what, where:** Godparents, christening, special interest This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby in the house» 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 (christening), 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:11 # text = Godparents are chosen at a christening to take a special interest in the child as it grows. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Godparents godparent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:mark 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 christening christening NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | present · passive | | Godparents | | a christening | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at christening=Asset | | 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | | a special interest | | | | in the child | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in child=Location | | 3 | **grow** | present | christening | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:11`. **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): R7-rel-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: [A new baby in the house, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/10/) - next →: [A new baby in the house, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/)