--- title: A handover is when one parent brings the child to the other; meeting… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: A handover is when one parent brings the child to the other; meeting in a neutral place like a car park keeps it calm and quick. Who acts: handover, meeting. 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 --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # When parents separate, sentence 15 A handover is when one parent brings the child to the other; meeting in a neutral place like a car park keeps it calm and quick. **Who acts:** handover, meeting · **What happens:** be, meet, keep · **To what, where:** neutral place, park 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 (handover, meeting), 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:15 # text = A handover is when one parent brings the child to the other; meeting in a neutral place like a car park keeps it calm and quick. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 handover handover NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:outer _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 meeting meet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 neutral neutral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 . . 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** | present | a handover | | | | | to the other; bring *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **meet** | gerund | | | | a neutral place like a car park | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | present | meeting | park | | | | calm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:15`. **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, R8-pos-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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/14/) - next →: [When parents separate, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)