--- title: "The patter of tiny feet" means a baby that is expected or wanted (j… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth · tree and pragmatics description: "The patter of tiny feet" means a baby that is expected or wanted (jokey). Who acts: patter, tiny feet. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth, sentence 9 "The patter of tiny feet" means a baby that is expected or wanted (jokey). **Who acts:** patter, tiny feet · **What happens:** mean, expect, want, patter · **To what, where:** baby 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 (patter, tiny feet), 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:9 # text = "The patter of tiny feet" means a baby that is expected or wanted (jokey). # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 patter patter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 wanted want VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 17 jokey jokey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 19 . . 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 | **mean** | present | the patter of tiny feet | a baby | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic | | 2 | **expect** | present · passive | | a baby | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **want** | participle | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **patter** *in a quote* | | tiny feet | | | | | | nom patter «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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:9`. **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, 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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/8/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: pregnancy…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/)