Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 18
Children often wrongly believe their parents' divorce is their fault; it never is.
Who acts: Children, divorce, parents · What happens: believe, be, not be, divorce · To what, where: fault · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Children, divorce, parents), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 3 | wrongly | wrongly | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 divorce | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 parents | case |
| 8 | divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fault | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fault | cop |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fault | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 is | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 is | advmod |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Children | often, wrongly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | children's parents's divorce | children's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not be | present | Divorce | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | divorce | children's parents | nom divorce «act transitive»: poss=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:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.lesson:18.
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, 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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