--- title: Sometimes parents are so unhappy together for so long that they deci… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes parents are so unhappy together for so long that they decide to stop living as a couple; this is called separating, and later it may become a divorce, the legal end of a marriage. Who acts: parents, couple. 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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 (parents, couple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:015-when-parents-separate.lesson:0 # text = Sometimes parents are so unhappy together for so long that they decide to stop living as a couple; this is called separating, and later it may become a divorce, the legal end of a marriage. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 015-when-parents-separate.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 together together ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 separating separate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advcl 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 divorce divorce NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 legal legal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | parents | | | | | sometimes, together, unhappy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **decide** | present | parents *= parent* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **live** | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | | as a couple | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **separate** | gerund | | | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **become** | may | couple | a divorce | | | | late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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](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:015-when-parents-separate.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-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: [Grown-ups who argue and make up, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/15/) - next →: [When parents separate, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)