--- title: In Kent, when Mum tells Marnie a baby is coming, Marnie asks, «Will… — A new baby · tree and pragmatics description: In Kent, when Mum tells Marnie a baby is coming, Marnie asks, «Will you still love me?» Mum says, «More than ever.» Love isn't like cake: it doesn't run out when it's shared. Who acts: Mum, baby, Marnie, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mum, baby, Marnie, you), 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:7 # text = In Kent, when Mum tells Marnie a baby is coming, Marnie asks, «Will you still love me?» Mum says, «More than ever.» Love isn't like cake: it doesn't run out when it's shared. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Kent Kent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 5 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 7 Marnie Marnie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Marnie Marnie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 17 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 still still ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 24 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obj _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 33 Love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 38 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 parataxis _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 when when SCONJ WRB _ 47 mark _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 advcl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | | Marnie | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent marnie=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **come** | present · progressive | a baby | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Marnie | | | Kent | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **love** *in a quote* | future | you | Marnie | | | still | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | More | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | Love | | | | | like cake | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **run out** | present · do-support | Love | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **share** | present · passive | | Love | | | | | 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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:7`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/6/) - next →: [A new baby, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/)