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title: All mammals feed their babies with milk made in the mother's body, s… — Mammals and how they care for their young · tree and pragmatics
description: All mammals feed their babies with milk made in the mother's body, so every baby mammal needs its mother at the start of its life. Who acts: mammals, baby mammal. A sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 0

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All mammals feed their babies with milk made in the mother's body, so every baby mammal needs its mother at the start of its life.

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**Who acts:** mammals, baby mammal · **What happens:** feed, make, need, start · **To what, where:** babies, milk, body, mother, start, life

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mammals, baby mammal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:075-mammals-and-their-young.lesson:0
# text = All mammals feed their babies with milk made in the mother's body, so every baby mammal needs its mother at the start of its life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 075-mammals-and-their-young.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	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | all mammals | mammals's babies |  |  |  | with milk | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | milk *not said here* |  | the mother's body |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **need** | present | every baby mammal | body's mother |  | the start of start's life |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mother=Theme |
| 4 | **start** |  |  | start's life |  |  |  |  | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:world:075-mammals-and-their-young.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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