--- title: Old soft words for having a baby stay too: "with child" means pregna… — Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy… · tree and pragmatics description: Old soft words for having a baby stay too: "with child" means pregnant, and "a happy event" is a birth. Who acts: Old soft words, child, happy event. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/2/) [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/) / [Euphemisms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/) / [Soft words for hard things: weight and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/) / 2 # Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth, sentence 2 Old soft words for having a baby stay too: "with child" means pregnant, and "a happy event" is a birth. **Who acts:** Old soft words, child, happy event · **What happens:** have, mean, be · **To what, where:** baby stay, birth This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms 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 (Old soft words, child, happy event), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:010-weight-and-babies.lesson:2 # text = Old soft words for having a baby stay too: "with child" means pregnant, and "a happy event" is a birth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 010-weight-and-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 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 for for SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 7 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 stay stay NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 10 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 pregnant pregnant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | gerund | Old soft words *not said here* | baby stay | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stay=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | child | | | | | pregnant *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | a happy event | a birth | | | | | tree rules | 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:euphemisms:010-weight-and-babies.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 ×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: [Soft words for hard things: weight and…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: weight and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/)