--- title: Crying is a baby's only way to say it is hungry, wet, cold or tired,… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics description: Crying is a baby's only way to say it is hungry, wet, cold or tired, and the night waking slowly gets better over a few months. Who acts: stomach, night. 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 o --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # A new baby in the house, sentence 7 Crying is a baby's only way to say it is hungry, wet, cold or tired, and the night waking slowly gets better over a few months. **Who acts:** stomach, night · **What happens:** cry, be, say, wake, get · **To what, where:** only way · **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 (stomach, night), 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:7 # text = Crying is a baby's only way to say it is hungry, wet, cold or tired, and the night waking slowly gets better over a few months. # 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 Crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 waking wake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 xcomp _ _ 27 over over ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a baby's only way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | stomach | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | stomach *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | stomach *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | stomach *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **wake** | gerund | the night *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **get** | present | the night | | | | | good, slowly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:7`. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/6/) - next →: [A new baby in the house, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/)