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title: When parents split up, it is never the child's fault; someone who ke… — Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a… · tree and pragmatics
description: When parents split up, it is never the child's fault; someone who keeps saying cruel things about it is bullying, so tell a trusted adult. Who acts: parents, money, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing you
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# Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 25

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When parents split up, it is never the child's fault; someone who keeps saying cruel things about it is bullying, so tell a trusted adult.

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**Who acts:** parents, money, someone · **What happens:** split up, not be, keep, say, bully, tell · **To what, where:** fault, cruel things, trusted adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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, money, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:25
# text = When parents split up, it is never the child's fault; someone who keeps saying cruel things about it is bullying, so tell a trusted adult.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	split	split	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	xcomp	_	_
18	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	bullying	bully	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split up** | present | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | money | the child's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | cruel things |  |  |  | about money | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 5 | **bully** | present · progressive | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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/).

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