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title: Babies simply need a lot of care. — Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Babies simply need a lot of care. Who acts: Babies. A sentence of the lesson «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters, sentence 8

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Babies simply need a lot of care.

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**Who acts:** Babies · **What happens:** need · **To what, where:** lot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» 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 (Babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.lesson:8
# text = Babies simply need a lot of care.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.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): no change
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Babies | a lot of care |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=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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**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:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.lesson:8`.

**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): no change. **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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