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title: Grown-ups often talk about babies coming in soft, roundabout words i… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups often talk about babies coming in soft, roundabout words instead of plain ones. Who acts: Grown ups, babies. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 0

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Grown-ups often talk about babies coming in soft, roundabout words instead of plain ones.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, babies · **What happens:** talk, come · **To what, where:** soft roundabout words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: 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 (Grown ups, babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:011-pregnancy-and-birth.lesson:0
# text = Grown-ups often talk about babies coming in soft, roundabout words instead of plain ones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 011-pregnancy-and-birth.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): no change
1	Grown	grow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	roundabout	roundabout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | Grown ups |  |  |  |  | about babies; often *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about baby=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | babies *not said here* |  |  | soft roundabout words |  | instead plain ones | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in word=Location |

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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.

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**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:011-pregnancy-and-birth.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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