--- title: In summer each mother gives birth to live babies without needing a f… — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds… · tree and pragmatics description: In summer each mother gives birth to live babies without needing a father, and each baby already has its own baby growing inside, so a few aphids become thousands in days. Who acts: mother, baby, own baby, few aphids. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, baby, own baby, few aphids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:2 # text = In summer each mother gives birth to live babies without needing a father, and each baby already has its own baby growing inside, so a few aphids become thousands in days. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 needing need VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 already already ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 inside inside ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 aphids aphid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 xcomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | each mother | birth | live babies | | summer | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to baby=Recipient | | 2 | **need** | gerund | each mother *not said here* | a father | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot father=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | each baby | birth's own baby | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | gerund | birth's own baby *not said here* | | | | | inside *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **become** | present | a few aphids | thousands in days | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:2`. **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 ×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. 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