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title: "Separated" means a married couple living apart, before or instead o… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Separated" means a married couple living apart, before or instead of a divorce. Who acts: married couple. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 18

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"Separated" means a married couple living apart, before or instead of a divorce.

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**Who acts:** married couple · **What happens:** separate, mean, live · **To what, where:** married couple, divorce · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family» of the euphemisms 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 (married couple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:18
# text = "Separated" means a married couple living apart, before or instead of a divorce.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 012-birth-and-couples.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
2	Separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
7	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	divorce	divorce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  | a married couple |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Topic |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | a married couple *not said here* |  |  | a divorce |  | apart *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before divorce=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:euphemisms:012-birth-and-couples.lesson:18`.

**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, 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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