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title: "Trying for a baby" means attempting to get pregnant. — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth · tree and pragmatics
description: "Trying for a baby" means attempting to get pregnant. Who acts: Trying. 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 clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 12

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"Trying for a baby" means attempting to get pregnant.

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**Who acts:** Trying · **What happens:** try, mean, attempt, get · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Trying), 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:12
# text = "Trying for a baby" means attempting to get pregnant.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **try** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a baby | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Trying |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **attempt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | pregnant *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:12`.

**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 ×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/).

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