--- title: Parents get very little sleep, so they can be tired, grumpy and forg… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics description: Parents get very little sleep, so they can be tired, grumpy and forgetful for a few months, and visitors seem to talk only about the baby. Who acts: Parents, visitors. 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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 (Parents, visitors), 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:2 # text = Parents get very little sleep, so they can be tired, grumpy and forgetful for a few months, and visitors seem to talk only about the baby. # 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 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 forgetful forgetful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **get** | present | Parents | little sleep | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | can | Parents *= parent* | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | month | | tree rules | | 5 | **seem** | present | visitors | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **talk** | to-infinitive | visitors *not said here* | | | | | about the baby | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about baby=Topic | 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:2`. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/1/) - next →: [A new baby in the house, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/)