--- title: A new baby changes a family: babies cry because crying is the only w… — A new baby, looking after siblings and living wi… · tree and pragmatics description: A new baby changes a family: babies cry because crying is the only way they can say they are hungry, tired or uncomfortable, their necks are not strong yet, and they need a lot of sleep and care. Who acts: new baby, babies, crying, they. 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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 (new baby, babies, crying, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:0 # text = A new baby changes a family: babies cry because crying is the only way they can say they are hungry, tired or uncomfortable, their necks are not strong yet, and they need a lot of sleep and care. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 095-babies-siblings-and-parents.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 changes change 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 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 crying crying NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 advcl _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 uncomfortable uncomfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 32 yet yet ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | a new baby | a family | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | babies | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | crying | the only way | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | they | the only way *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 5 | **is** | present | they | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | they *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | they *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **is** | present | babies *not said here* | | | | yet | strong *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **need** | present | necks *= neck* | a lot of sleep and care | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme | 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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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