--- title: Custody, or "arrangements", means deciding where children live and w… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: Custody, or "arrangements", means deciding where children live and when they see each parent; if parents cannot agree, a mediator (a trained helper who helps them agree) or a family court helps decide what is best for the children. Who acts: Custody, children, parents, trained helper. A sentence of --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # When parents separate, sentence 13 Custody, or "arrangements", means deciding where children live and when they see each parent; if parents cannot agree, a mediator (a trained helper who helps them agree) or a family court helps decide what is best for the children. **Who acts:** Custody, children, parents, trained helper, mediator · **What happens:** mean, decide, live, see, not agree, train · **To what, where:** parent, parents · **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 (Custody, children, parents, trained helper), 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:13 # text = Custody, or "arrangements", means deciding where children live and when they see each parent; if parents cannot agree, a mediator (a trained helper who helps them agree) or a family court helps decide what is best for the children. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Custody custody NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 arrangements arrangement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 deciding decide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 ccomp _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 mediator mediator NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 helper helper NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 41 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 42 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 43 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 45 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 42 ccomp _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Custody or arrangements | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **decide** | gerund | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **live** | present | children | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** | present | children *= child* | each parent | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **agree** *speech: agree* *a condition, not said to happen* | can | parents | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **help** | present | a trained helper | parents *= parent* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 8 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | parents *= parent* *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **help** | present | a mediator or a family court | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 10 | **decide** | infinitive | a mediator or a family court *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **is** | present | | | | | | for the children; good *property* | 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:13`. **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): 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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/12/) - next →: [When parents separate, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)