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title: "Conscious uncoupling" means a divorce or break-up (jokey, from a fa… — Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Conscious uncoupling" means a divorce or break-up (jokey, from a famous celebrity). Who acts: Conscious uncoupling. 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 
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# Soft words for hard things: pregnancy and birth and relations and family, sentence 20

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"Conscious uncoupling" means a divorce or break-up (jokey, from a famous celebrity).

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**Who acts:** Conscious uncoupling · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** divorce

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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 (Conscious uncoupling), 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:20
# text = "Conscious uncoupling" means a divorce or break-up (jokey, from a famous celebrity).
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Conscious	conscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	uncoupling	uncoupling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	divorce	divorce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	jokey	jokey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	celebrity	celebrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Conscious uncoupling | a divorce or break up |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent divorce=Topic |

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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:20`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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