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title: A baby grows inside its mother's womb for about nine months before i… — The human life cycle and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: A baby grows inside its mother's womb for about nine months before it is born. Who acts: baby. A sentence of the lesson «The human life cycle and growing up» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The human life cycle and growing up, sentence 5

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A baby grows inside its mother's womb for about nine months before it is born.

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**Who acts:** baby · **What happens:** grow, bear · **To what, where:** womb, hair

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The human life cycle and growing up» 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 (baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:092-human-life-cycle.lesson:5
# text = A baby grows inside its mother's womb for about nine months before it is born.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 092-human-life-cycle.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	womb	womb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **grow** | present | a baby |  |  | hair's mother's womb | month |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside womb=Location |
| 2 | **bear** | present · passive |  | hair |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:092-human-life-cycle.lesson:5`.

**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): no change. **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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