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title: A new baby needs a lot of care, but parents love an older child just… — Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment · tree and pragmatics
description: A new baby needs a lot of care, but parents love an older child just as much. Who acts: new baby, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment, sentence 10

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A new baby needs a lot of care, but parents love an older child just as much.

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**Who acts:** new baby, parents · **What happens:** need, love · **To what, where:** lot, older child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment» 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 (new baby, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:092-disappointment-jealousy-and-embarrassment.lesson:10
# text = A new baby needs a lot of care, but parents love an older child just as much.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 092-disappointment-jealousy-and-embarrassment.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **need** | present | a new baby | a lot of care |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme |
| 2 | **love** | present | parents | a older child |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |

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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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**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:092-disappointment-jealousy-and-embarrassment.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): no change. **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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