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title: Parents of a new baby are very tired, and tired people can snap or f… — A new baby in the house · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents of a new baby are very tired, and tired people can snap or forget things; it is not a change in how they feel about you. Who acts: Parents, tired people, 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
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# A new baby in the house, sentence 8

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Parents of a new baby are very tired, and tired people can snap or forget things; it is not a change in how they feel about you.

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**Who acts:** Parents, tired people, stomach · **What happens:** be, snap, forget, not be, feel · **To what, where:** things, change

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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 (Parents, tired people, 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:8
# text = Parents of a new baby are very tired, and tired people can snap or forget things; it is not a change in how they feel about you.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
11	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
16	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | Parents of a new baby |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **snap** | can | tired people |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **forget** | infinitive | tired people *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | stomach | a change |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | present | Parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | about you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about you=Location |

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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:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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