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title: Babies feed from the breast or a bottle, often for twenty minutes or… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics
description: Babies feed from the breast or a bottle, often for twenty minutes or more, and they need calm to settle. Who acts: Babies, breast. 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 17

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Babies feed from the breast or a bottle, often for twenty minutes or more, and they need calm to settle.

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**Who acts:** Babies, breast · **What happens:** feed, need, settle · **To what, where:** breast, calm

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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, breast), 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:17
# text = Babies feed from the breast or a bottle, often for twenty minutes or more, and they need calm to settle.
# 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	Babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	calm	calm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **feed** | present | Babies |  |  | the breast or a bottle | minute |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **need** | present | breast | calm |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot calm=Theme |
| 3 | **settle** | to-infinitive | breast *not said here* | calm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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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