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title: Afterwards life has new shapes: a second home with a room for you, a… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics
description: Afterwards life has new shapes: a second home with a room for you, a colour-coded calendar on the fridge, Sunday handovers in a car park, two toothbrushes, and lawyers and courts sorting out the grown-up paperwork. Who acts: life, lawyers. A sentence of the lesson «When parents separate» of the adul
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# When parents separate, sentence 3

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Afterwards life has new shapes: a second home with a room for you, a colour-coded calendar on the fridge, Sunday handovers in a car park, two toothbrushes, and lawyers and courts sorting out the grown-up paperwork.

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**Who acts:** life, lawyers · **What happens:** have, code, sort out, grow · **To what, where:** new shapes, grown paperwork

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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 (life, lawyers), 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:3
# text = Afterwards life has new shapes: a second home with a room for you, a colour-coded calendar on the fridge, Sunday handovers in a car park, two toothbrushes, and lawyers and courts sorting out the grown-up paperwork.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	coded	code	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	handovers	handover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	toothbrushes	toothbrush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	lawyers	lawyer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	sorting	sort	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
42	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=45:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound	_	_
45	paperwork	paperwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | life | new shapes |  |  |  | a second home with a room for you and a coded calendar on the fridge and Sunday handovers in a car park and two toothbrushes and lawyers and courts *obl*; afterwards *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient |
| 2 | **code** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sort out** | gerund | lawyers and courts *not said here* | the grown paperwork |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paperwork=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): 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.

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