--- title: A separation ends the marriage, not the family: both parents still l… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: A separation ends the marriage, not the family: both parents still love their children, and children never cause a split and cannot undo it. Who acts: separation, parents, children. 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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 (separation, parents, children), 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:1 # text = A separation ends the marriage, not the family: both parents still love their children, and children never cause a split and cannot undo it. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 separation separation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 12 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 split split NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 undo undo VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | present | a separation | the marriage and the family | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality marriage=Eventuality | | 2 | **love** | present | both parents | parents's children | | | still | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **cause** | present | children | a split | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition split=Patient | | 4 | **not** **undo** | can | children *not said here* | marriage | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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: [When parents separate, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/0/) - next →: [When parents separate, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)