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title: Helping with the baby, like choosing a name or holding her, helps ol… — A new baby · tree and pragmatics
description: Helping with the baby, like choosing a name or holding her, helps older kids bond. Who acts: Helping, older kids. 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.
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# A new baby, sentence 48

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Helping with the baby, like choosing a name or holding her, helps older kids bond.

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**Who acts:** Helping, older kids · **What happens:** help, choose, hold, bond · **To what, where:** name, baby, older kids

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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 (Helping, older kids), 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:48
# text = Helping with the baby, like choosing a name or holding her, helps older kids bond.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
11	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	bond	bond	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **help** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the baby | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with baby=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | gerund |  | a name |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund |  | baby |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | present | Helping | older kids |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent kid=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **bond** | infinitive | older kids *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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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