--- title: Mum goes quiet, then says, «We wanted more babies, but it didn't hap… — The only child: all the attention and wanting a… · tree and pragmatics description: Mum goes quiet, then says, «We wanted more babies, but it didn't happen, puiule» («puiule» is Romanian for «little chick», a pet name). Who acts: Mum, We, it, puiule. A sentence of the lesson «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling/10/) [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/) / [The only child: all the attention and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling/) / 10 # The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling, sentence 10 Mum goes quiet, then says, «We wanted more babies, but it didn't happen, puiule» («puiule» is Romanian for «little chick», a pet name). **Who acts:** Mum, We, it, puiule · **What happens:** go, say, want, not happen, be · **To what, where:** more babies · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» 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 (Mum, We, it, puiule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.lesson:10 # text = Mum goes quiet, then says, «We wanted more babies, but it didn't happen, puiule» («puiule» is Romanian for «little chick», a pet name). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 puiule puiule NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 puiule puiule NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 Romanian romanian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 chick chick NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Mum | | | | | quiet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | past | We | more babies | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot baby=Theme | | 4 | **not** **happen** *in a quote* | past · do-support | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | puiule | | | | | for little chick; romanian *property* | tree rules | 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:499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling.lesson:10`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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: [The only child: all the attention and…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling/9/) - next →: [The only child: all the attention and…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/499-the-only-child-all-the-attention-and-wanting-a-sibling/)