--- title: Even married parents need time just for the two of them, so on date… — Dates, engagements and weddings · tree and pragmatics description: Even married parents need time just for the two of them, so on date night a trusted babysitter comes, and that does not mean they want to get away from you. Who acts: married parents, trusted babysitter, that, couples. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (married parents, trusted babysitter, that, couples), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:3 # text = Even married parents need time just for the two of them, so on date night a trusted babysitter comes, and that does not mean they want to get away from you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson # annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 2 married married ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 babysitter babysitter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj _ _ 24 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | married parents | | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | present | a trusted babysitter | | | | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | that | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **want** | present | couples *= couple* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **get away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | couples *= couple* *not said here* | | | | | from you; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from you=Source | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:013-dates-engagements-and-weddings.lesson:3`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/2/) - next →: [Dates, engagements and weddings, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/13-dates-engagements-and-weddings/)