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title: When a couple are "splitting up", they are ending their time togethe… — Your uh-oh feeling · tree and pragmatics
description: When a couple are "splitting up", they are ending their time together; parents who split up may divorce, which means ending their marriage. Who acts: couple, people, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Your uh-oh feeling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Your uh-oh feeling, sentence 23

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When a couple are "splitting up", they are ending their time together; parents who split up may divorce, which means ending their marriage.

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**Who acts:** couple, people, parents · **What happens:** split up, end, divorce, mean, marry · **To what, where:** marriage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Your uh-oh feeling» of the everyday 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, people, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:019-uh-oh-feeling.lesson:23
# text = When a couple are "splitting up", they are ending their time together; parents who split up may divorce, which means ending their marriage.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 019-uh-oh-feeling.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	splitting	split	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	ending	end	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
17	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	divorce	divorce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
26	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	ccomp	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split up** *in a quote* | present · progressive | a couple |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **end** | present · progressive | people |  |  |  | time | together *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **split up** | past | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **divorce** | may | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **end** | gerund |  | people's marriage |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality marriage=Eventuality |
| 7 | **marry** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:everyday:019-uh-oh-feeling.lesson:23`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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