--- title: Cartoons give every baby a mum who does all the work and a stork tha… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons give every baby a mum who does all the work and a stork that brings it; in real life the seahorse dad carries the eggs, the cuckoo mum tricks other birds into raising her chick, and the crocodile mum carries her babies gently in her jaws. Who acts: Cartoons, mum, stork, seahorse dad. 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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 (Cartoons, mum, stork, seahorse dad), 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:3 # text = Cartoons give every baby a mum who does all the work and a stork that brings it; in real life the seahorse dad carries the eggs, the cuckoo mum tricks other birds into raising her chick, and the crocodile mum carries her babies gently in her jaws. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 seahorse seahorse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 cuckoo cuckoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:amod 32 tricks trick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 into into SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 raising raise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:det 42 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 47 gently gently ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Cartoons | a mum | every baby | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent baby=Recipient mum=Theme | | 2 | **do** | present | a mum | all work and a stork | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 3 | **bring** | present | a stork | stork | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **carry** | present | the seahorse dad | the eggs | | real life | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Value in life=Location | | 5 | **trick** | present | the cuckoo mum | other birds | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | | 6 | **raise** | gerund | the cuckoo mum *not said here* | mum's chick | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme | | 7 | **carry** | present | the crocodile mum | mum's babies | | mum's jaws | | gently *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Value in jaw=Location | 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:3`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/2/) - next →: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/)