When parents separate, sentence 8
Parents say "It's not your fault" because many children secretly think they caused the split, and it is true: children's behaviour does not end a marriage.
Who acts: Parents, couple, many children, behaviour · What happens: say, not be, think, cause, be, not end · To what, where: fault, split, marriage · 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, many children, behaviour), 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 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fault | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fault | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fault | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fault | advmod |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fault | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | ccomp |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fault | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 children | amod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 think | nsubj |
| 13 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 14 think | advmod |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | advcl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 caused | nsubj |
| 16 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 split | det |
| 18 | split | split | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caused | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 true | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 true | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 true | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 true | cop |
| 23 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 think | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 end | punct |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 behaviour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 children | case |
| 27 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 end | nsubj |
| 28 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 end | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 end | advmod |
| 30 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 true | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 marriage | det |
| 32 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 end | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | 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 | Parents | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | couple | your fault | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | many children | secretly property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cause | past | parents = parent | the split | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition split=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | couple | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not end | present · do-support | children's behaviour | a marriage | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality marriage=Eventuality |
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:8.
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): 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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