--- title: A girl in Texas wants to hold her baby brother; she sits on the sofa… — A new baby, looking after siblings and living wi… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Texas wants to hold her baby brother; she sits on the sofa, her mum lays him in her arms, and she keeps one hand under his wobbly head the whole time. Who acts: girl, mum. 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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 (girl, mum), 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:4 # text = A girl in Texas wants to hold her baby brother; she sits on the sofa, her mum lays him in her arms, and she keeps one hand under his wobbly head the whole time. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sofa sofa NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 under under ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 wobbly wobbly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | a girl in Texas | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **hold** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a girl in Texas *not said here* | girl's baby brother | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | | 3 | **sit** | present | girl | | | the sofa | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location | | 4 | **lay** | present | girl's mum | parent | | girl's arms | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in arm=Destination | | 5 | **keep** | present | mum | one hand | | parent's wobbly head | time | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme under head=Location | 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:4`. **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): 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, looking after siblings and…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/3/) - next →: [A new baby, looking after siblings and…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/)