--- title: Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may le… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away. Who acts: parents, couple. 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 of every clause --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # When parents separate, sentence 6 Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away. **Who acts:** parents, couple · **What happens:** separate, mean, stop, live together, lead · **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 (parents, couple), 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:6 # text = Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Separating separate VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 together together ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 divorce divorce NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 20 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 22 advmod _ _ 21 straight straight ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **separate** | gerund | | | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stop** | present | parents | | | | | away *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **live together** | gerund | parents *not said here* | | | | | as a couple; together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lead** | may | couple | | | | | to a divorce | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to divorce=Patient | 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:6`. **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): R6-punct-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/5/) - next →: [When parents separate, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)