When parents separate, sentence 5

"We have something to tell you" means important news, good or hard, and parents plan such talks so they can tell children carefully and together.

Who acts: We, parents · What happens: have, tell, mean, plan · To what, where: something, you, important news, such talks, children · 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 (We, parents), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	ccomp
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 something	acl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 news	amod
11	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 good	punct
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 news	amod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 hard	cc
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 good	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 plan	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 plan	cc
18	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 plan	nsubj
19	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	conj
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 talks	amod
21	talks	talk	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 plan	obj
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	25 tell	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 plan	advcl
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tell	obj
27	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	25 tell	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 together	cc
29	together	together	ADV	_	27 carefully	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	We	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here	something not said here	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	mean	present		important news			tree rules
4	plan	present	parents	such talks			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	can	parents = parent		children	carefully property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient

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:5.

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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