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title: "Born out of wedlock" is the official phrase for born to parents who… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth · tree and pragmatics
description: "Born out of wedlock" is the official phrase for born to parents who were not married. 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 22

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"Born out of wedlock" is the official phrase for born to parents who were not married.

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**What happens:** bear out, be, bear, not marry · **To what, where:** official phrase, parents

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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: 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:22
# text = "Born out of wedlock" is the official phrase for born to parents who were not married.
# 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	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	nsubj	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wedlock	wedlock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
12	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **bear out** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of wedlock; out *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the official phrase |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | participle |  | the official phrase *not said here* |  |  |  | to parents | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **marry** | past · passive |  | parents |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:22`.

**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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