--- title: Babies babble ("ba-ba-ba") long before their first words; it is prac… — What language is: sounds, words and rules everyo… · tree and pragmatics description: Babies babble ("ba-ba-ba") long before their first words; it is practice with the sounds of language, and every human group ever found has language. Who acts: Babies, ba, human group. 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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 (Babies, ba, human group), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.lesson:14 # text = Babies babble ("ba-ba-ba") long before their first words; it is practice with the sounds of language, and every human group ever found has language. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.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 1 Babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 babble babble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 5 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 12 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 13 before before ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 amod _ _ 16 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 29 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 32 advmod _ _ 32 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 34 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **babble** | present | Babies | ba ba ba | | | | long *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ba=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | ba | practice | | | | with the sounds of language | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | past | every human group *not said here* | | | | ever | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | every human group | language | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | | 5 | **word** | | Babies *= baby* | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:language:001-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules.lesson:14`. **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. **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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