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title: "Change-of-life baby" means a baby born when the mother is near the… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth · tree and pragmatics
description: "Change-of-life baby" means a baby born when the mother is near the end of the age for having children (old-fashioned). Who acts: Change life baby, mother, age. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 14

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"Change-of-life baby" means a baby born when the mother is near the end of the age for having children (old-fashioned).

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**Who acts:** Change life baby, mother, age · **What happens:** mean, bear, be, have · **To what, where:** baby, end, children

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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 (Change life baby, mother, age), 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:14
# text = "Change-of-life baby" means a baby born when the mother is near the end of the age for having children (old-fashioned).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	Change	Change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:amod
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **mean** | present | Change life baby | a baby |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | a baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | the mother |  |  |  | near the end; of the age |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | the age *not said here* | children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

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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:14`.

**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): 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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