--- title: A baby's body is still weak in places: its neck cannot hold up its h… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics description: A baby's body is still weak in places: its neck cannot hold up its heavy head, and its brain can be badly hurt by shaking, so babies are handled only gently and only with a grown-up's say-so. Who acts: body, neck, grown up. 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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 (body, neck, grown up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.lesson:0 # text = A baby's body is still weak in places: its neck cannot hold up its heavy head, and its brain can be badly hurt by shaking, so babies are handled only gently and only with a grown-up's say-so. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 still still ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 28 by by SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 handled handle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 gently gently ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 38 only only ADV RB _ 36 conj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:det 41 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 amod _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 43 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ _ 44 's 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 say say NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct 47 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | a baby's body | | | places | still | weak *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **hold up** | can | body's neck | body's heavy head | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot head=Theme | | 3 | **hurt** | can · passive | | body's brain | | | | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **shake** | gerund | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **handle** | present · passive | | babies | | | | with a grown up's say; gently *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme with say=Instrument | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **say** | | a grown up | | | | | | nom say «state intransitive»: poss=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:everyday:113-babies-batteries-and-magnets.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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: [Sharp things, small objects and little…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/112-sharp-things-and-little-ones/22/) - next →: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/)