--- title: "A visit from the stork" is a joking way to say a baby is born; chil… — Soft words for hard things: weight and pregnancy… · tree and pragmatics description: "A visit from the stork" is a joking way to say a baby is born; children were told storks bring babies. Who acts: visit, storks. 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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 (visit, storks), 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:23 # text = "A visit from the stork" is a joking way to say a baby is born; children were told storks bring babies. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stork stork NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 joking joke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 ccomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ _ 22 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:iobj 23 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a visit from the stork | a joking way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **bear** | present · passive | | a baby | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | children | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **bring** | present | storks | babies | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent baby=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:euphemisms:010-weight-and-babies.lesson:23`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: weight and…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/22/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: weight and…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/)