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title: Maternity leave is time off work for a new mother; in Britain it can… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics
description: Maternity leave is time off work for a new mother; in Britain it can last up to a year, often on lower pay. Who acts: work. 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.
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# A new baby in the house, sentence 15

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Maternity leave is time off work for a new mother; in Britain it can last up to a year, often on lower pay.

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**Who acts:** work · **What happens:** be, last up · **To what, where:** leave time, Britain

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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 (work), 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:15
# text = Maternity leave is time off work for a new mother; in Britain it can last up to a year, often on lower pay.
# 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): no change
1	Maternity	maternity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | leave time |  |  |  | off work for a new mother | tree rules |
| 2 | **last up** | can | work |  |  | Britain | year | on lower pay | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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.

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