--- title: Babies cry to tell us they are hungry, tired or uncomfortable, becau… — A new baby, looking after siblings and living wi… · tree and pragmatics description: Babies cry to tell us they are hungry, tired or uncomfortable, because they cannot talk. Who acts: Babies, children. A sentence of the lesson «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/5/) [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, looking after siblings and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/) / 5 # A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents, sentence 5 Babies cry to tell us they are hungry, tired or uncomfortable, because they cannot talk. **Who acts:** Babies, children · **What happens:** cry, tell, be, not talk · **To what, where:** us · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby, looking after siblings and living with parents» 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 (Babies, children), 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:5 # text = Babies cry to tell us they are hungry, tired or uncomfortable, because they cannot talk. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 5 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 uncomfortable uncomfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Babies | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Babies *not said here* | | us | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | children *= child* | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **talk** | can | children *= child* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «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:095-babies-siblings-and-parents.lesson:5`. **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): 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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/4/) - next →: [A new baby, looking after siblings and…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/95-babies-siblings-and-parents/)