--- title: "Pregnancy loss" is the official phrase for a miscarriage or a still… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth · tree and pragmatics description: "Pregnancy loss" is the official phrase for a miscarriage or a stillbirth (a baby that dies just before or while being born). Who acts: Pregnancy loss, baby. 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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 (Pregnancy loss, 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:16 # text = "Pregnancy loss" is the official phrase for a miscarriage or a stillbirth (a baby that dies just before or while being 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Pregnancy pregnancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 miscarriage miscarriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 stillbirth stillbirth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 just just ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Pregnancy loss | the official phrase | | | | for a miscarriage or a stillbirth and a baby | tree rules | | 2 | **die** | present | a baby | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **bear** | gerund · passive | a baby *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | 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:16`. **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): R6-punct-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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/15/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/)