--- title: Babies born early often need a special warm hospital cot to help the… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: Babies born early often need a special warm hospital cot to help them breathe and feed; most grow up strong, though sometimes it is harder. Who acts: Babies, plant, cot. 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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, plant, cot), 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:13 # text = Babies born early often need a special warm hospital cot to help them breathe and feed; most grow up strong, though sometimes it is harder. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 3 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 cot cot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 19 advmod _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 though though SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 27 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **bear** | participle | | Babies *not said here* | | | | early *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **need** | present | Babies | a special warm hospital cot | | | | often *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cot=Theme | | 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | Babies *not said here* | plant | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **breathe** | infinitive | plant *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **feed** | infinitive | plant *not said here* | | | | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **grow up** | present | | | | | | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | present | cot | | | | | hard, sometimes *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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.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): 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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