--- title: A parent's new partner is not a new mum or dad; if they marry or liv… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: A parent's new partner is not a new mum or dad; if they marry or live together, they become a step-parent. Who acts: new partner, mum. 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 every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/11/) [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/) / [New partners and step-families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/) / 11 # New partners and step-families, sentence 11 A parent's new partner is not a new mum or dad; if they marry or live together, they become a step-parent. **Who acts:** new partner, mum · **What happens:** not be, marry, live together, become · **To what, where:** new mum, step parent 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 (new partner, mum), 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:11 # text = A parent's new partner is not a new mum or dad; if they marry or live together, they become a step-parent. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 marry marry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a parent's new partner | a new mum or dad | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **marry** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | mum | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **live together** | present | mum *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **become** | present | mum | a step parent | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:016-new-partners-and-step-families.lesson:11`. **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, 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: [New partners and step-families, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/10/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)