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title: A single parent looks after the children mostly alone, maybe after a… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics
description: A single parent looks after the children mostly alone, maybe after a separation, a death or by choice, and it is a complete family. Who acts: single parent, choice. A sentence of the lesson «New partners and step-families» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# New partners and step-families, sentence 19

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A single parent looks after the children mostly alone, maybe after a separation, a death or by choice, and it is a complete family.

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**Who acts:** single parent, choice · **What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** complete family

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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 (single parent, choice), 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:19
# text = A single parent looks after the children mostly alone, maybe after a separation, a death or by choice, and it is a complete family.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a single parent |  |  |  | after the children | alone *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | choice | a complete family |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:19`.

**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/).

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