--- title: When her parents split up, a girl in California believed it was her… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics description: When her parents split up, a girl in California believed it was her fault and stopped seeing her friends; it was not her fault at all, and talking to both parents helped her understand. Who acts: parents, girl, sadness, talking. 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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 (parents, girl, sadness, talking), 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:18 # text = When her parents split up, a girl in California believed it was her fault and stopped seeing her friends; it was not her fault at all, and talking to both parents helped her understand. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 split split VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 csubj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **split up** | past | person's parents | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **believe** | past | a girl in California | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is a** | past | sadness | person's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stop** | past | a girl in California *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **see** | gerund | a girl in California *not said here* | person's friends | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **is a** | past | sadness | person's fault | | all | | | tree rules | | 7 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | to both parents | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parent=Co-Agent | | 8 | **help** | past | talking | girl | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 9 | **understand** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:18`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Family changes and grief, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/17/) - next →: [Family changes and grief, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/)