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title: Babies wear nappies, which are changed six to ten times a day, and n… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics
description: Babies wear nappies, which are changed six to ten times a day, and nappy cream stops sore skin. Who acts: Babies, nappy cream. 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 16

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Babies wear nappies, which are changed six to ten times a day, and nappy cream stops sore skin.

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**Who acts:** Babies, nappy cream · **What happens:** wear, change, stop · **To what, where:** nappies, sore skin

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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 (Babies, nappy cream), 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:16
# text = Babies wear nappies, which are changed six to ten times a day, and nappy cream stops sore skin.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nappies	nappy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
16	nappy	nappy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **wear** | present | Babies | nappies |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent nappy=Source |
| 2 | **change** | present · passive |  | nappies |  |  | time |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **stop** | present | nappy cream | sore skin |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality skin=Eventuality |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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.

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