Divorce and two homes, sentence 48
When parents can't agree, a family court may decide where children live; children are listened to but do not have to choose.
Who acts: parents, family court, children · What happens: not agree, decide, live, listen, not have, choose · To what, where: children
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, family court, 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 | _ | 5 agree | mark |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 agree | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 agree | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 agree | advmod |
| 5 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decide | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decide | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 court | det |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 court | compound |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 decide | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 decide | aux |
| 11 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 decide | advmod |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 live | nsubj |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 where | advcl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 listened | punct |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 listened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 listened | aux:pass |
| 18 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 decide | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 listened | obl |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 have | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 listened | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 choose | mark |
| 25 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 have | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 decide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not agree speech: agree | can | parents | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | decide | may | a family court | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | present | children | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | listen | present · passive | children | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not have | present · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | choose | to-infinitive | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:48.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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