--- title: It helps to say «I miss you» and ask for special time, just him and… — A new baby · tree and pragmatics description: It helps to say «I miss you» and ask for special time, just him and Mum or Dad. Who acts: bit. 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/6/) [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/) / 6 # A new baby, sentence 6 It helps to say «I miss you» and ask for special time, just him and Mum or Dad. **Who acts:** bit · **What happens:** help, say, miss, ask · **To what, where:** bit, you · **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 (bit), 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:6 # text = It helps to say «I miss you» and ask for special time, just him and Mum or Dad. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj 2 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 miss miss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 16 just just ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 . . 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 | **help** | present | | bit | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | bit *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **miss** *in a quote* | present | bit | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | time | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [A new baby, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/5/) - next →: [A new baby, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/)