Divorce and two homes, sentence 46

Parents arguing at handovers puts a child in the middle; a child may ask them to stop, though it doesn't always work.

Who acts: Parents, child, middle · What happens: argue, put, ask, stop, not work · To what, where: handovers, child, middle, parents

This is a sentence of the lesson «Divorce and two homes» 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, child, middle), 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	5 puts	nsubj
2	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Parents	acl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 handovers	case
4	handovers	handover	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arguing	obl
5	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puts	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puts	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ask	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 ask	aux
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 puts	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ask	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 stop	mark
18	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ask	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 work	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 work	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 work	nsubj
22	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 work	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 work	advmod
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 work	advmod
25	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ask	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 puts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	gerund	Parents not said here			handovers		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	present	Parents	a child		the middle		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme in middle=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	may	a child		parents = parent			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	a child not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	not work	present · do-support	middle				always property	vn employment-95.3 «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:516-divorce-and-two-homes.lesson:46.

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): R7-rel-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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