When parents separate, sentence 2

Picture a kitchen in Toronto: Mum and Dad sit you down together, Dad says "Mum and I have decided to separate", and Mum hugs you tight and says "It's not your fault" — and it is true.

Who acts: you, Dad, Mum, kitchen · What happens: picture, sit down, say, decide, separate, hug · To what, where: kitchen, Toronto, you, fault · 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 (you, Dad, Mum, kitchen), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kitchen	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Toronto	case
5	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Mum	punct
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sit	cc
9	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Mum	conj
10	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Mum	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 sit	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 sit	compound:prt
13	together	together	ADV	_	10 sit	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
15	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 decided	punct
18	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 decided	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 I	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Mum	conj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 decided	aux
22	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 says	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 separate	mark
24	separate	separate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 decided	xcomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 decided	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hugs	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hugs	cc
28	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hugs	nsubj
29	hugs	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 says	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 hugs	obj
31	tight	tight	ADV	_	33 says	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 says	cc
33	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hugs	conj
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 fault	punct
35	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 fault	nsubj
36	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 fault	cop
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 fault	advmod
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 fault	nmod:poss
39	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 says	ccomp
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 fault	punct
41	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 true	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 true	cc
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 true	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 true	cop
45	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Picture	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a kitchen	Toronto		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme
2	sit down	present	you not said here	you		together property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	Dad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	decide in a quote	present · perfect	Mum				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	separate not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Mum not said here				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	hug	present	Mum	you			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
7	say speech: assert	present	Mum not said here			tight property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	not is a in a quote	present	kitchen	your fault			tree rules
9	is	present	kitchen			true 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:2.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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