--- title: Grown-ups have gentle phrases for these things: «going our separate… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups have gentle phrases for these things: «going our separate ways» means a couple is splitting up, and «the love of my life» means the person someone loved most. Who acts: Grown ups, couple, love, someone. 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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 (Grown ups, couple, love, someone), 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:21 # text = Grown-ups have gentle phrases for these things: «going our separate ways» means a couple is splitting up, and «the love of my life» means the person someone loved most. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 phrases phrase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 13 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 16 » » PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 splitting split VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 34 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:compound 35 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 nsubj _ _ 36 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:ccomp 37 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | Grown ups | gentle phrases | | | | for this things and our going separate ways | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Patient | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **split up** | present · progressive | a couple | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | the love of my life | the person | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | | 7 | **love** | past | someone | the person *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | | 8 | **love** *in a quote* | | | my life | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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:21`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/20/) - next →: [Speaking up, saying no and growing up, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/)