Family changes and grief, sentence 20
When parents separate, it is never the child's fault, and children feel better when they can ask questions and talk.
Who acts: parents, Grief, children · What happens: separate, not be, feel, ask, talk · To what, where: fault, questions
This is a sentence of the lesson «Family changes and grief» of the everyday 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, Grief, children), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 separate | mark |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 separate | nsubj |
| 3 | separate | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fault | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fault | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fault | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fault | cop |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 fault | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fault | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 child | case |
| 11 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 feel | cc |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fault | conj |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 feel | xcomp |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 ask | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ask | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ask | aux |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 feel | advcl |
| 21 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ask | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 talk | cc |
| 23 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ask | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fault | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | present | parents | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | Grief | the child's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | children | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | can | parents = parent | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | talk | infinitive | parents = parent not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:everyday:214-family-changes-and-grief.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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