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title: That is because babies need a lot of care, not because the parents l… — Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments · tree and pragmatics
description: That is because babies need a lot of care, not because the parents love the older child less. Who acts: That, babies, 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 cla
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# Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments, sentence 3

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That is because babies need a lot of care, not because the parents love the older child less.

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**Who acts:** That, babies, parents · **What happens:** be, need, not love · **To what, where:** lot, older child

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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 (That, babies, 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:3
# text = That is because babies need a lot of care, not because the parents love the older child less.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | present | That |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | babies | a lot of care |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **love** | present | the parents | the older child |  |  |  | less *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |

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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:292-jealousy-boredom-pride-and-hard-moments.lesson:3`.

**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): 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/).

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