When parents separate, sentence 1

A separation ends the marriage, not the family: both parents still love their children, and children never cause a split and cannot undo it.

Who acts: separation, parents, children · What happens: end, love, not cause, not undo · To what, where: marriage, children, split

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 (separation, parents, children), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 separation	det
2	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	nsubj
3	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 marriage	det
5	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ends	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 family	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 family	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 family	det
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marriage	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 love	punct
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 parents	det
12	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 love	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 love	advmod
14	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ends	parataxis
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 children	nmod:poss
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 love	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cause	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cause	cc
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cause	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 cause	advmod
21	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 love	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 split	det
23	split	split	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cause	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 undo	cc
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 undo	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 undo	advmod
27	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cause	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 undo	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	end	present	a separation	the marriage and the family		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality marriage=Eventuality
2	love	present	both parents	parents's children	still	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
3	not cause	present	children	a split		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition split=Patient
4	not undo	can	children not said here	marriage		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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