When parents separate, sentence 0
Sometimes parents are so unhappy together for so long that they decide to stop living as a couple; this is called separating, and later it may become a divorce, the legal end of a marriage.
Who acts: parents, couple · What happens: be, decide, stop, live, call, separate · To what, where: this, divorce · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When parents separate» of the adult life 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 (parents, couple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 unhappy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 long | case |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 unhappy | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 decide | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 decide | nsubj |
| 12 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stop | mark |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 decide | xcomp |
| 15 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 stop | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 couple | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 couple | det |
| 18 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 living | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 unhappy | parataxis |
| 23 | separating | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 called | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 become | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 become | cc |
| 26 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 become | advmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 become | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 become | aux |
| 29 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 called | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 divorce | det |
| 31 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 become | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 end | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 end | det |
| 34 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 end | amod |
| 35 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 divorce | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 marriage | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 marriage | det |
| 38 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 end | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unhappy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | parents | sometimes, together, unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide | present | parents = parent | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | parents = parent not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | live | gerund | parents = parent not said here | as a couple | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | present · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | separate | gerund | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | become | may | couple | a divorce | late property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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, 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:adult-life:015-when-parents-separate.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, R7-rel-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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