--- title: If one parent says bad things about the other, you can say you love… — Family changes and grief · tree and pragmatics description: If one parent says bad things about the other, you can say you love both and do not want to choose; children should not be put in the middle. Who acts: one parent, you. 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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 (one parent, 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:8 # text = If one parent says bad things about the other, you can say you love both and do not want to choose; children should not be put in the middle. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 15 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:_ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 parataxis _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one parent | bad things | | | | about the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **love** | present | you | both | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer both=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **choose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **put** | should · passive | | children | | the middle | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in middle=Destination | 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:8`. **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): 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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/7/) - next →: [Family changes and grief, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/)