--- title: When parents divorce, a child should not be put in the middle; you c… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics description: When parents divorce, a child should not be put in the middle; you can say you love both and do not want to choose. Who acts: parents, you. A sentence of the lesson «Family changes and grief» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/2/) [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/) / [Family changes and grief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/) / 2 # Family changes and grief, sentence 2 When parents divorce, a child should not be put in the middle; you can say you love both and do not want to choose. **Who acts:** parents, you · **What happens:** divorce, not put, say, love, not want, choose · **To what, where:** child, middle, both · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Family changes and grief» 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 (parents, you), 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:2 # text = When parents divorce, a child should not be put in the middle; you can say you love both and do not want to choose. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 divorce divorce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis 20 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 19 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **divorce** | present | parents | | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **put** | should · passive | | a child | | the middle | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in middle=Destination | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **love** | present | you | both | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer both=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **choose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:214-family-changes-and-grief.lesson:2`. **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): R7-rel-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: [Family changes and grief, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/1/) - next →: [Family changes and grief, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/)