Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 38

Some parents struggle after a divorce and withdraw; it is not the child's fault, and the child can tell the other parent or a trusted adult.

Who acts: parents, divorce, child · What happens: struggle, withdraw, not be, tell · To what, where: fault, other parent · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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, divorce, child), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 struggle	nsubj
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 divorce	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 divorce	det
6	divorce	divorce	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struggle	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 struggle	cc
8	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fault	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fault	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fault	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 fault	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fault	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 child	case
16	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struggle	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 child	det
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 struggle	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 parent	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 parent	amod
25	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 adult	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 adult	det
28	trusted	trust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 adult	amod
29	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 parent	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 struggle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	struggle	present	some parents			after a divorce	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	withdraw	present	some parents not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a	present	divorce	the child's fault			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	can	the child		the other parent or a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:38.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. 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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