--- title: A parent who says something unkind about the other and then "Forget… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: A parent who says something unkind about the other and then "Forget I said that" has slipped; children do not have to agree or pass it on. Who acts: parent, 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 (parent, 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:18 # text = A parent who says something unkind about the other and then "Forget I said that" has slipped; children do not have to agree or pass it on. # 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 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 slipped slip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a parent | something | | | | about the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 2 | **forget** *in a quote* | infinitive | a parent *not said here* | | | | then | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | a parent *= parent* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **slip** | present · perfect | a parent | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | children | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **pass on** | infinitive | children *not said here* | park | | | | | vn send-11.1 «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:18`. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/16/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)