When parents separate, sentence 13

Custody, or "arrangements", means deciding where children live and when they see each parent; if parents cannot agree, a mediator (a trained helper who helps them agree) or a family court helps decide what is best for the children.

Who acts: Custody, children, parents, trained helper, mediator · What happens: mean, decide, live, see, not agree, train · To what, where: parent, parents · 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 (Custody, children, parents, trained helper), 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	Custody	custody	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 arrangements	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 arrangements	cc
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 arrangements	punct
5	arrangements	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Custody	conj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 arrangements	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Custody	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	deciding	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 means	ccomp
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 live	advmod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 live	nsubj
12	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 deciding	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 see	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 live	conj
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 parent	det
18	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 agree	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 agree	mark
21	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 agree	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 agree	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 agree	advmod
24	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 helps	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mediator	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mediator	det
27	mediator	mediator	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 helps	nsubj
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 helper	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 helper	det
30	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 helper	amod
31	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mediator	appos
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 helps	nsubj
33	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 helper	acl:relcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 helps	obj
35	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 helps	xcomp
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 helper	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 court	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 court	det
39	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 court	compound
40	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mediator	conj
41	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	parataxis
42	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 helps	xcomp
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 best	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 best	cop
45	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 decide	ccomp
46	for	for	ADP	_	48 children	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 children	det
48	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 best	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Custody or arrangements			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	decide	gerund				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	live	present	children			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	present	children = child	each parent		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus
5	not agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen	can	parents			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	train	participle				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	help	present	a trained helper	parents = parent		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
8	agree speech: agree	infinitive	parents = parent not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	help	present	a mediator or a family court			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	decide	infinitive	a mediator or a family court not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	is	present			for the children; good property	tree rules

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:13.

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): 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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