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title: A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics
description: A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny. Who acts: newborn baby, stomach. 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 6

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A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.

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**Who acts:** newborn baby, stomach · **What happens:** need, feed, be

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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 (newborn baby, stomach), 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:6
# text = A newborn baby needs feeding every two or three hours, day and night, because its stomach is tiny.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	newborn	newborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **need** | present | a newborn baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** *not said to happen* | gerund | a newborn baby *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | leave's stomach |  |  |  |  | tiny *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:6`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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