--- title: Picture Sunday lunch at Ellie's house: her aunt's new baby wraps his… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Sunday lunch at Ellie's house: her aunt's new baby wraps his whole hand round Ellie's finger; nine years ago Ellie was that small too, and so was every grown-up at the table. Who acts: you, new baby, Ellie. 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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 (you, new baby, Ellie), 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:1 # text = Picture Sunday lunch at Ellie's house: her aunt's new baby wraps his whole hand round Ellie's finger; nine years ago Ellie was that small too, and so was every grown-up at the table. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wraps wrap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 round round ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 23 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 ago ago ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 that that ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:det 36 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Sunday lunch | | Ellie's house | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme | | 2 | **wrap** | present | Ellie's aunt's new baby | baby's whole hand | | | | round Ellie's finger | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | Ellie | | | | year | small, that *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | past | Ellie *not said here* | grown | | the table | | | 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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:1`. **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. **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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