--- title: Vivid example: when Nan says «Auntie Jo has a little one on the way»… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: when Nan says «Auntie Jo has a little one on the way», she simply means Auntie Jo is pregnant and a baby is coming. Who acts: Nan, Auntie, Auntie Jo, 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 (Nan, Auntie, Auntie Jo, 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:3 # text = Vivid example: when Nan says «Auntie Jo has a little one on the way», she simply means Auntie Jo is pregnant and a baby is coming. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:dep 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 Nan Nan PROPN NNP _ 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 Auntie Auntie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 Jo Jo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 simply simply ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 22 Auntie Auntie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Jo Jo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 pregnant pregnant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Auntie | a little one | | the way | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | Auntie | | | | | simply *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | Auntie Jo | | | | | pregnant *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | present · progressive | a baby | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×2, 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/2/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/)