Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 12
Most divorces are final, and accepting this helps a child heal.
Who acts: Most divorces, accepting, child · What happens: be, accept, help, heal · To what, where: this, child
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents, divorce and step-families» 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 (Most divorces, accepting, 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 divorces | amod |
| 2 | divorces | divorce | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 final | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 final | cop |
| 4 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 final | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 helps | cc |
| 7 | accepting | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 helps | csubj |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 accepting | obj |
| 9 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 final | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 helps | obj |
| 12 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 helps | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 final | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most divorces | final property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accept | gerund | this | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | present | accepting | a child | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | heal | infinitive | a child not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.lesson:12.
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. 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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