--- title: A solicitor is a kind of lawyer who helps with legal things like a d… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: A solicitor is a kind of lawyer who helps with legal things like a divorce; seeing one does not mean anyone is in trouble with the police. Who acts: solicitor, lawyer, seeing, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «When parents separate» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [When parents separate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/) / 10 # When parents separate, sentence 10 A solicitor is a kind of lawyer who helps with legal things like a divorce; seeing one does not mean anyone is in trouble with the police. **Who acts:** solicitor, lawyer, seeing, anyone · **What happens:** be, help, see, not mean · **To what, where:** kind, one, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When parents separate» of the adult life 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 (solicitor, lawyer, seeing, anyone), 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:10 # text = A solicitor is a kind of lawyer who helps with legal things like a divorce; seeing one does not mean anyone is in trouble with the police. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 solicitor solicitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 lawyer lawyer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 legal legal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 divorce divorce NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 22 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . 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 a** | present | a solicitor | a kind | | | | of lawyer | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | lawyer | | | | | with legal things like a divorce | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thing=Theme | | 3 | **see** | gerund | | one | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | seeing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | anyone | | | trouble | | with the police | tree rules | 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:10`. **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): no change. **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, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/9/) - next →: [When parents separate, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)