--- title: Every person who ever lived started as something smaller than a full… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: Every person who ever lived started as something smaller than a full stop, grew for about nine months inside their mother's womb, and was then born helpless, unable even to hold up their own head. Who acts: person. 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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 (person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:0 # text = Every person who ever lived started as something smaller than a full stop, grew for about nine months inside their mother's womb, and was then born helpless, unable even to hold up their own head. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 9 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 15 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 inside inside ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 womb womb NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 28 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 29 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 30 helpless helpless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | every person | | | | ever | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **start** | past | every person | | | | | as something | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **grow** | past | every person *not said here* | | | their mother's womb | month | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside womb=Location | | 4 | **bear** | past · passive | every person *not said here* | | | | then | helpless *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | | 5 | **hold up** | to-infinitive | every person *not said here* | their own head | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot head=Theme | 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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×2, 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. 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