--- title: Newborn babies can suck, cry and grip, but walking and talking are l… — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: Newborn babies can suck, cry and grip, but walking and talking are learned slowly; many babies take their first steps at around 11 to 13 months. Who acts: Newborn babies, many babies, children. 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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 (Newborn babies, many babies, children), 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:8 # text = Newborn babies can suck, cry and grip, but walking and talking are learned slowly; many babies take their first steps at around 11 to 13 months. # 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 ×2, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Newborn newborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 suck suck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 grip grip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 walking walking NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 16 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 amod _ _ 23 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 around around ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:case 28 13 13 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 30 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **suck** | can | Newborn babies | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | Newborn babies *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grip** | infinitive | Newborn babies *not said here* | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **learn** | present · passive | | walking | | | | slowly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 6 | **take** | present | many babies | children's first steps | | 11 | month | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent step=Theme at 11=Asset | | 7 | **step** | | children *= child* | | | | | | nom step «act 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:8`. **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 ×2, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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