--- title: Babies join families in other ways too: some children are adopted fo… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics description: Babies join families in other ways too: some children are adopted for good, and some foster children come to stay for a while. Who acts: Babies, foster children. 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 prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [A new baby in the house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/) / 4 # A new baby in the house, sentence 4 Babies join families in other ways too: some children are adopted for good, and some foster children come to stay for a while. **Who acts:** Babies, foster children · **What happens:** join, adopt, come, stay · **To what, where:** families, other ways, children 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, foster children), 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:4 # text = Babies join families in other ways too: some children are adopted for good, and some foster children come to stay for a while. # 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 ×2 1 Babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 8 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 18 foster foster NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **join** | present | Babies | families | | other ways | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | | 2 | **adopt** | present · passive | | some children | | | | for good | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **come** | present | some foster children | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stay** | to-infinitive | some foster children *not said here* | | | | while | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:4`. **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 ×2. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/3/) - next →: [A new baby in the house, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/)