--- title: A divorce is the official legal end of a marriage, and "the divorce… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: A divorce is the official legal end of a marriage, and "the divorce came through" means the court has finished it. Who acts: divorce, court. A sentence of the lesson «When parents separate» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # When parents separate, sentence 11 A divorce is the official legal end of a marriage, and "the divorce came through" means the court has finished it. **Who acts:** divorce, court · **What happens:** be, come through, mean, finish · **To what, where:** official legal end, divorce · **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 (divorce, court), 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:11 # text = A divorce is the official legal end of a marriage, and "the divorce came through" means the court has finished 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 divorce divorce NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 legal legal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 divorce divorce NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 csubj _ _ 17 through through ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 divorce | the official legal end | | | | of a marriage | tree rules | | 2 | **come through** *in a quote* | past | the divorce | | | | | through *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | a divorce *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **finish** | present · perfect | the court | divorce | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | 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:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/10/) - next →: [When parents separate, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)