--- title: "We have something to tell you" means important news, good or hard,… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: "We have something to tell you" means important news, good or hard, and parents plan such talks so they can tell children carefully and together. Who acts: We, parents. 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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 (We, parents), 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:5 # text = "We have something to tell you" means important news, good or hard, and parents plan such talks so they can tell children carefully and together. # 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 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:csubj 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 plan plan VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 talks talk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 so so SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 26 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 together together ADV RB _ 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | We | something | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | something *not said here* | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **mean** | present | | important news | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **plan** | present | parents | such talks | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Topic | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | parents *= parent* | | children | | | carefully *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | 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:5`. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/4/) - next →: [When parents separate, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)