--- title: Around age 2, children put two or three key words together, like "Me… — How babies learn to talk · tree and pragmatics description: Around age 2, children put two or three key words together, like "Me want biscuit!", leaving out small words; this is called telegraphic speech and is normal. Who acts: children, Me. 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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 (children, Me), 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:8 # text = Around age 2, children put two or three key words together, like "Me want biscuit!", leaving out small words; this is called telegraphic speech and is normal. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Around around ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 put put VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ 10 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 17 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 biscuit biscuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 leaving leave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:xcomp 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 30 telegraphic telegraphic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 normal normal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | present | children | two key words | | | around age | together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme around age=Destination | | 2 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Me | biscuit | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot biscuit=Theme | | 3 | **leave out** | gerund | children *not said here* | small words | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 4 | **call** *speech: express* | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | normal *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:8`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/7/) - next →: [How babies learn to talk, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/)