--- title: Grown-ups usually wait until the relationship is serious before the… — New partners and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups usually wait until the relationship is serious before the children meet the new partner, and they pick a relaxed, ordinary place for the first meeting. Who acts: ups, relationship, children. 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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 (ups, relationship, children), 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:2 # text = Grown-ups usually wait until the relationship is serious before the children meet the new partner, and they pick a relaxed, ordinary place for the first meeting. # 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 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 until until SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 relationship relationship NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 11 before before SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 23 relaxed relaxed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 amod _ _ 30 meeting meeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | present | ups | | | | | usually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | the relationship | | | | | serious *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **meet** | present | the children | the new partner | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Co-Agent | | 5 | **pick** | present | children *= child* | a relaxed ordinary place | | | | for the first meeting | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for meeting=Beneficiary | 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:2`. **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: [New partners and step-families, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/1/) - next →: [New partners and step-families, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/16-new-partners-and-step-families/)