--- title: Families change: a new baby arrives, parents separate, step-families… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics description: Families change: a new baby arrives, parents separate, step-families form, and sometimes someone we love dies. Who acts: Families, change, parents, step families. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Families, change, parents, step families), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:0 # text = Families change: a new baby arrives, parents separate, step-families form, and sometimes someone we love dies. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 214-family-changes-and-grief.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound 2 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 arrives arrive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 separate separate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 22 advmod _ _ 19 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | | Families | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **arrive** | present | change | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **separate** | present | parents | | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **form** | present | step families | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **love** | present | we | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **die** | present | someone | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud/21/) - next →: [Family changes and grief, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/)