--- title: Parents say "It's not your fault" because many children secretly thi… — When parents separate · tree and pragmatics description: Parents say "It's not your fault" because many children secretly think they caused the split, and it is true: children's behaviour does not end a marriage. Who acts: Parents, couple, many children, behaviour. 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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 (Parents, couple, many children, behaviour), 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:8 # text = Parents say "It's not your fault" because many children secretly think they caused the split, and it is true: children's behaviour does not end a marriage. # 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 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 4 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 split split NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 behaviour behaviour NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 marriage marriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Parents | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | couple | your fault | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | many children | | | | | secretly *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **cause** | past | parents *= parent* | the split | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition split=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | couple | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **end** | present · do-support | children's behaviour | a marriage | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality marriage=Eventuality | 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:8`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [When parents separate, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/6/) - next →: [When parents separate, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/)