When parents separate, sentence 6
Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away.
Who acts: parents, couple · What happens: separate, mean, stop, live together, lead · 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 (parents, couple), 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 | Separating | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stop | xcomp |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 living | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 couple | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 couple | det |
| 9 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 living | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 lead | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lead | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 lead | aux |
| 13 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stop | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 divorce | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 divorce | det |
| 16 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lead | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 away | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 away | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 away | advmod |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 away | advmod |
| 21 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 stop | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | gerund | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | stop | present | parents | away property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | live together | gerund | parents not said here | as a couple; together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead | may | couple | to a divorce | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to divorce=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:6.
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): R6-punct-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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