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title: "On a break" means a couple has split up for a while and may get bac… — Soft words for hard things: relations and family · tree and pragmatics
description: "On a break" means a couple has split up for a while and may get back together. Who acts: couple. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 17

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"On a break" means a couple has split up for a while and may get back together.

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**Who acts:** couple · **What happens:** mean, split up, get back · **To what, where:** break · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:013-relations-and-family.lesson:17
# text = "On a break" means a couple has split up for a while and may get back together.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 013-relations-and-family.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | **mean** | present |  |  |  | a break |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **split up** | present · perfect | a couple |  |  |  | while |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get back** | may | a couple *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:013-relations-and-family.lesson:17`.

**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, 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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