--- title: "Lost the baby" means had a miscarriage: the baby died before it cou… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth · tree and pragmatics description: "Lost the baby" means had a miscarriage: the baby died before it could be born. Who acts: baby. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/15/) [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: pregnancy…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/) / 15 # Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 15 "Lost the baby" means had a miscarriage: the baby died before it could be born. **Who acts:** baby · **What happens:** lose, mean, have, die, bear · **To what, where:** baby, miscarriage · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (baby), 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:15 # text = "Lost the baby" means had a miscarriage: the baby died before it could be born. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 csubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 miscarriage miscarriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 before before SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | participle | | the baby | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Eventuality | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | past | | a miscarriage | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miscarriage=Patient | | 4 | **die** | past | the baby | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **bear** | could · passive | | miscarriage | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:011-pregnancy-and-birth.lesson:15`. **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): R8-pos-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: pregnancy…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/14/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/)