--- title: A newborn human baby has about 270 to 300 bones and pieces of cartil… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics description: A newborn human baby has about 270 to 300 bones and pieces of cartilage, many of which fuse to leave 206 in an adult, and human babies need their parents for many years. Who acts: newborn human baby, many, human babies. 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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 (newborn human baby, many, human babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:049-babies.lesson:16 # text = A newborn human baby has about 270 to 300 bones and pieces of cartilage, many of which fuse to leave 206 in an adult, and human babies need their parents for many years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 049-babies.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 newborn newborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 270 270 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ _ 10 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 cartilage cartilage NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 16 fixed _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det|HaikuPos=DET:WDT:PronType=Int 19 fuse fuse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 206 206 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a newborn human baby | 270 bones and pieces of cartilage | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | | 2 | **fuse** | present | many | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | many *not said here* | 206 | | | | in a adult | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent 206=Theme in adult=Location | | 4 | **need** | present | human babies | babies's parents | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot parent=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:biology:049-babies.lesson:16`. **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: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/15/) - next →: [How animals talk, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/50-how-animals-talk/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/)