--- title: Grown-ups say two people «are an item» when they are a couple, going… — Kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups say two people «are an item» when they are a couple, going out together; parents «divorcing» means their marriage is ending and they will live apart, which is never the child's fault. Who acts: Grown ups, two people, people, marriage. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» of the e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Kindness to animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/) / 17 # Kindness to animals, sentence 17 Grown-ups say two people «are an item» when they are a couple, going out together; parents «divorcing» means their marriage is ending and they will live apart, which is never the child's fault. **Who acts:** Grown ups, two people, people, marriage, ups · **What happens:** say, be, go out, divorce, mean, end · **To what, where:** item, couple, fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to animals» 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 (Grown ups, two people, people, marriage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.lesson:17 # text = Grown-ups say two people «are an item» when they are a couple, going out together; parents «divorcing» means their marriage is ending and they will live apart, which is never the child's fault. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 207-kindness-to-animals.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 ×3 1 Grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 item item NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 19 out out ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 divorcing divorce VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 ending end VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 35 apart apart ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 39 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 's 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grown ups | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | two people | a item | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | people | a couple and parents | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go out** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | out, together *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **divorce** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **end** | present · progressive | people's marriage | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **live** | future | ups *= up* | | | | | apart *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **not** **is a** | present | | the child's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **marry** | | people | | | | | | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:everyday:207-kindness-to-animals.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 ×3. **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: [Kindness to animals, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/16/) - next →: [Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/)