--- title: Babies are born able to suck, cry and grip, but walking, talking and… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: Babies are born able to suck, cry and grip, but walking, talking and reading are learned slowly, by trying, falling and trying again; a giraffe walks within an hour, while a human baby needs about a year, because our big brains have so much to learn. Who acts: giraffe, human baby, big brains. 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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 (giraffe, human baby, big brains), 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:2 # text = Babies are born able to suck, cry and grip, but walking, talking and reading are learned slowly, by trying, falling and trying again; a giraffe walks within an hour, while a human baby needs about a year, because our big brains have so much to learn. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 grip grip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 13 walking walking NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 20 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ _ 28 again again ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 within within ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 while while SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 42 about about ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 because because SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 47 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 48 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 50 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 51 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 obj _ _ 53 to to PART TO _ 54 mark _ _ 54 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 52 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=52:advcl 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **bear** | present · passive | | Babies | | | | able *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **suck** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grip** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **read** | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **learn** | present · passive | | walking | | | | slowly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 8 | **try** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **fall** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **try** | gerund | | | | | again | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **walk** | present | a giraffe | | | | hour | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 12 | **need** | present | a human baby | | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 13 | **have** | present | our big brains | much | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | | 14 | **learn** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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