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title: "Seven-month baby" was an old gossip phrase for a baby that came les… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Seven-month baby" was an old gossip phrase for a baby that came less than nine months after the wedding. Who acts: month baby, baby. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 5

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"Seven-month baby" was an old gossip phrase for a baby that came less than nine months after the wedding.

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**Who acts:** month baby, baby · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** old gossip phrase

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» 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 (month baby, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:5
# text = "Seven-month baby" was an old gossip phrase for a baby that came less than nine months after the wedding.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 012-birth-and-couples.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 ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	19	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | month baby | a old gossip phrase |  |  |  | for a baby | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | a baby |  |  |  | after the wedding; month |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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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