--- title: A baby starts when a tiny cell from the mother and a tiny cell from… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: A baby starts when a tiny cell from the mother and a tiny cell from the father join together; before that, the baby did not exist as a person. Who acts: baby, tiny cell. 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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 (baby, tiny cell), 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:6 # text = A baby starts when a tiny cell from the mother and a tiny cell from the father join together; before that, the baby did not exist as a person. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 18 mark _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 19 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 21 before before ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 exist exist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | a baby | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **join** | present | a tiny cell from the mother and a tiny cell from the father | | | | | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **exist** | past · do-support | the baby | | | that | | as a person | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before that=Location | 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:6`. **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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