Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 20
"Irreconcilable differences" is the official reason given for a divorce (US).
Who acts: Irreconcilable differences · What happens: be, give · To what, where: official reason
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» of the euphemisms 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 (Irreconcilable differences), 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 differences | punct |
| 2 | Irreconcilable | irreconcilable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 differences | amod |
| 3 | differences | difference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reason | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 differences | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reason | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 7 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reason | amod |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 reason | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 divorce | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 divorce | det |
| 12 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 US | punct |
| 14 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 divorce | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 US | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- other
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Irreconcilable differences | the official reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the official reason not said here | for a divorce | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for divorce=Asset |
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:euphemisms:013-relations-and-family.lesson:20.
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): no change. 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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