--- title: When a baby is ill, older siblings feel the worry too; asking questi… — A new baby · tree and pragmatics description: When a baby is ill, older siblings feel the worry too; asking questions and telling a grown-up helps. Who acts: baby, older siblings. A sentence of the lesson «A new baby» 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/504-a-new-baby/45/) [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/) / [A new baby](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/) / 45 # A new baby, sentence 45 When a baby is ill, older siblings feel the worry too; asking questions and telling a grown-up helps. **Who acts:** baby, older siblings · **What happens:** be, feel, ask, tell, grow up, help · **To what, where:** worry, questions · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby» 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 (baby, older siblings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:504-a-new-baby.lesson:45 # text = When a baby is ill, older siblings feel the worry too; asking questions and telling a grown-up helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 504-a-new-baby.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 siblings sibling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 worry worry NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 nsubj _ _ 15 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 19 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 21 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 22 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a baby | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | present | older siblings | the worry | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **help** | present | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:45`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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: [A new baby, 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/44/) - next →: [A new baby, 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/46/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/)