When parents separate, sentence 18
A parent who says something unkind about the other and then "Forget I said that" has slipped; children do not have to agree or pass it on.
Who acts: parent, children · What happens: say, forget, slip, not have, agree, pass on · To what, where: something, park · 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 (parent, 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 parent | det |
| 2 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 parent | acl:relcl |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 says | obj |
| 6 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 other | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Forget | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 Forget | advmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Forget | punct |
| 13 | Forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Forget | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 slipped | mark |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 slipped | punct |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 slipped | aux |
| 19 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 have | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 slipped | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 agree | mark |
| 26 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 have | xcomp |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 pass | cc |
| 28 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 agree | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pass | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 pass | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a parent | something | about the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||
| 2 | forget in a quote | infinitive | a parent not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | a parent = parent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | slip | present · perfect | a parent | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | not have | present · do-support | children | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | agree speech: agree | to-infinitive | children not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | pass on | infinitive | children not said here | park | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:18.
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, R8-pos-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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