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title: After parents split up, or after a mum or dad has died, a grown-up m… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics
description: After parents split up, or after a mum or dad has died, a grown-up may meet someone new and fall in love again. Who acts: parents, mum, grown up. A sentence of the lesson «New partners and step-families» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# New partners and step-families, sentence 0

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After parents split up, or after a mum or dad has died, a grown-up may meet someone new and fall in love again.

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**Who acts:** parents, mum, grown up · **What happens:** split up, die, grow, meet, fall · **To what, where:** someone, love

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This is a sentence of the lesson «New partners and step-families» 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, mum, grown up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:0
# text = After parents split up, or after a mum or dad has died, a grown-up may meet someone new and fall in love again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 016-new-partners-and-step-families.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 ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
16	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split up** | past | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | present · perfect | a mum or dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | may | a grown up | someone |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **fall** | infinitive | a grown up *not said here* |  |  | love | again |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |

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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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**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:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:0`.

**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 ×5, 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/).

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