--- title: In Vancouver, Dad yawns over his cereal, the changing bag by the doo… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics description: In Vancouver, Dad yawns over his cereal, the changing bag by the door is stuffed with nappies, and Mum calls from the sofa, "She's feeding, can you give us a minute?" Nine-year-old Josh feels a bit left out, and that is normal. Who acts: Dad, Mum, you, year old Josh. 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Nine-year-old Josh feels a bit left out, and that is normal. **Who acts:** Dad, Mum, you, year old Josh, that · **What happens:** yawn, stuff, call, feed, give, feel · **To what, where:** changing bag, sofa, us, bit · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Dad, Mum, you, year old Josh), 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:3 # text = In Vancouver, Dad yawns over his cereal, the changing bag by the door is stuffed with nappies, and Mum calls from the sofa, "She's feeding, can you give us a minute?" Nine-year-old Josh feels a bit left out, and that is normal. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Vancouver Vancouver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound 5 yawns yawn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 cereal cereal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 changing changing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 stuffed stuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 nappies nappy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod 23 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sofa sofa NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 36 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=47:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 41 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 43 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ _ 45 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=47:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 47 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:obj 50 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:acl 51 out out ADP RP _ 50 compound:prt _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 56 nsubj _ _ 55 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 cop _ _ 56 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **yawn** | present | Dad | | | | | over Dad's cereal; in Vancouver | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vancouver=Theme | | 2 | **stuff** | present · passive | | the changing bag by the door | | | | with nappies | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with nappy=Theme | | 3 | **call** *speech: ask* | present | Mum | | | the sofa | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **feed** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Mum | | | | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | can | you | | us | | minute | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 6 | **feel** | present | year old Josh | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **leave out** | participle | year old Josh *not said here* | a bit | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | present | that | | | | | normal *property* | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/2/) - next →: [A new baby in the house, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/)