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title: Some babies, like foals and baby giraffes, are born with open eyes a… — Mammals and how they care for their young · tree and pragmatics
description: Some babies, like foals and baby giraffes, are born with open eyes and can walk within hours; others, like kittens, puppies and human babies, are born helpless and need long care. A sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 2

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Some babies, like foals and baby giraffes, are born with open eyes and can walk within hours; others, like kittens, puppies and human babies, are born helpless and need long care.

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**What happens:** bear, walk, need · **To what, where:** babies, others, long care

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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: 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:2
# text = Some babies, like foals and baby giraffes, are born with open eyes and can walk within hours; others, like kittens, puppies and human babies, are born helpless and need long care.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	foals	foal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	within	within	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	kittens	kitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:appos
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
33	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
36	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present · passive |  | some babies like foals and baby giraffes |  |  |  | with open eyes | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** | can |  |  |  |  | hour |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | present · passive |  | others like kittens and puppies and human babies |  |  |  | helpless *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **need** | present |  | long care |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme |

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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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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