--- title: Young children usually pick up accents and sounds more easily, but a… — How babies learn to talk · tree and pragmatics description: Young children usually pick up accents and sounds more easily, but adults can still learn languages well and are often quicker at grammar and new words at first. Who acts: Young children, adults. 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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 (Young children, adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:031-how-babies-learn-to-talk.lesson:13 # text = Young children usually pick up accents and sounds more easily, but adults can still learn languages well and are often quicker at grammar and new words at first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 031-how-babies-learn-to-talk.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 10 easily easily ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 17 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 quicker quick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | present | Young children | accents and sounds | | | | usually *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Topic | | 2 | **learn** | can | adults | languages | | | still | well *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | adults *not said here* | | | grammar and new words | | often, quick *property* | tree rules | 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:031-how-babies-learn-to-talk.lesson:13`. **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 ×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: [How babies learn to talk, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/11/) - next →: [How babies learn to talk, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/)