--- title: When a new baby arrives, parents spend hours feeding, changing and s… — Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments · tree and pragmatics description: When a new baby arrives, parents spend hours feeding, changing and soothing it. Who acts: new baby, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/2/) [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/) / [Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard mome…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments/) / 2 # Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments, sentence 2 When a new baby arrives, parents spend hours feeding, changing and soothing it. **Who acts:** new baby, parents · **What happens:** arrive, spend, feed, change, soothe · **To what, where:** baby This is a sentence of the lesson «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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 (new baby, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments.lesson:2 # text = When a new baby arrives, parents spend hours feeding, changing and soothing it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments.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 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 arrives arrive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 soothing soothe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **arrive** | present | a new baby | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **spend** | present | parents | | | | hour | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feed** | gerund | parents *not said here* | | | | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **change** | gerund | parents *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **soothe** | gerund | parents *not said here* | baby | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | 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:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments.lesson:2`. **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. **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. 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