--- title: Picture a kitchen in Toronto: Mum and Dad sit you down together, Dad… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a kitchen in Toronto: Mum and Dad sit you down together, Dad says "Mum and I have decided to separate", and Mum hugs you tight and says "It's not your fault" — and it is true. Who acts: you, Dad, Mum, kitchen. A sentence of the lesson «When parents separate» of the adult life course of Mova' --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # When parents separate, sentence 2 Picture a kitchen in Toronto: Mum and Dad sit you down together, Dad says "Mum and I have decided to separate", and Mum hugs you tight and says "It's not your fault" — and it is true. **Who acts:** you, Dad, Mum, kitchen · **What happens:** picture, sit down, say, decide, separate, hug · **To what, where:** kitchen, Toronto, you, fault · **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 (you, Dad, Mum, kitchen), 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:2 # text = Picture a kitchen in Toronto: Mum and Dad sit you down together, Dad says "Mum and I have decided to separate", and Mum hugs you tight and says "It's not your fault" — and it is true. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj 10 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 together together ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 16 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 18 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 conj _ _ 21 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 decided decide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 ccomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 separate separate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 hugs hug VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 tight tight ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 35 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 ccomp _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 — - PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a kitchen | | Toronto | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme | | 2 | **sit down** | present | you *not said here* | you | | | | together *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **decide** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Mum | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **separate** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **hug** | present | Mum | you | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum *not said here* | | | | | tight *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | kitchen | your fault | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | present | kitchen | | | | | true *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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/1/) - next →: [When parents separate, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)