Family changes and grief, sentence 8

If one parent says bad things about the other, you can say you love both and do not want to choose; children should not be put in the middle.

Who acts: one parent, you · What happens: say, love, not want, choose, not put · To what, where: bad things, both, children, middle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one parent, you), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 says	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 parent	nummod
3	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	advcl
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 other	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 love	nsubj
15	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	ccomp
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 love	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 want	cc
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 want	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 want	advmod
20	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 love	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 choose	mark
22	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 want	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 put	nsubj:pass
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 put	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 put	aux:pass
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 say	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 middle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 middle	det
31	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	one parent	bad things		about the other	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	say speech: assert	can	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	love	present	you	both			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer both=Stimulus
4	not want	present · do-support	you not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	choose not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not put	should · passive		children	the middle		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in middle=Destination

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: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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