--- title: A new brother or sister does not use up a family's love: love is not… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: A new brother or sister does not use up a family's love: love is not a cake cut into smaller slices, it grows to cover everyone, even when the baby takes up a lot of time. Who acts: new brother, love, baby, family. 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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 (new brother, love, baby, family), 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:4 # text = A new brother or sister does not use up a family's love: love is not a cake cut into smaller slices, it grows to cover everyone, even when the baby takes up a lot of time. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 20 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 slices slice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 35 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **not** **use up** | present · do-support | a new brother or sister | a family's love | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | love | a cake | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **cut** | participle | | a cake *not said here* | | | | into smaller slices | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into slice=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | present | love | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cover** | to-infinitive | love *not said here* | | everyone | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everyone=Destination | | 6 | **take up** | present | the baby | a lot of time | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 7 | **love** | | a family | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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:4`. **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, 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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