Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 2
Divorce is about the grown-ups' relationship, not about the children: it is never the child's fault, both parents still love them, and children should never be put in the middle, carrying messages or choosing sides.
Who acts: Divorce, parents, relationship · What happens: grow, be, not be, love, not put, carry · To what, where: fault, children, middle, messages, sides
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 (Divorce, parents, relationship), 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 | Divorce | divorce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 relationship | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 relationship | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 relationship | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ups | det |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ups | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 7 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 relationship | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 ups | case |
| 9 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 children | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 children | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 children | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 children | det |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 relationship | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 fault | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fault | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fault | cop |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 fault | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fault | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 child | case |
| 22 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 relationship | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 love | punct |
| 24 | both | both | DET | _ | 25 parents | det:predet |
| 25 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 love | nsubj |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 love | advmod |
| 27 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fault | parataxis |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 love | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 put | cc |
| 31 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 put | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 put | aux |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 put | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 put | aux:pass |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 relationship | acl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 middle | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 middle | det |
| 38 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 carrying | punct |
| 40 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 put | advcl |
| 41 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 carrying | obj |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 choosing | cc |
| 43 | choosing | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 carrying | conj |
| 44 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 choosing | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 relationship | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Divorce | about the grown ups's relationship and the children | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | Divorce | the child's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | present | both parents | children = child | still | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not put | should · passive | the grown ups's relationship and the children not said here | children | the middle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in middle=Destination | |||
| 6 | carry | gerund | the grown ups's relationship and the children not said here | messages | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||||
| 7 | choose | gerund | the grown ups's relationship and the children not said here | sides | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
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:2.
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, 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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