--- title: A baby should be picked up only when a grown-up says so and shows yo… — Babies, button batteries and magnets · tree and pragmatics description: A baby should be picked up only when a grown-up says so and shows you how to support its head. Who acts: grown up. A sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» of the everyday 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/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/5/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Babies, button batteries and magnets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/) / 5 # Babies, button batteries and magnets, sentence 5 A baby should be picked up only when a grown-up says so and shows you how to support its head. **Who acts:** grown up · **What happens:** pick up, grow, say, show, support · **To what, where:** baby, you, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies, button batteries and magnets» of the everyday 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 (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:5 # text = A baby should be picked up only when a grown-up says so and shows you how to support its head. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 10 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 support support VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | should · passive | | a baby | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a grown up | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **show** | present | a grown up *not said here* | you | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **support** | to-infinitive | | up's head | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | 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:5`. **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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/4/) - next →: [Babies, button batteries and magnets, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/113-babies-batteries-and-magnets/)