--- title: Some parents struggle after a divorce and withdraw; it is not the ch… — Cold parents: always on the phone · tree and pragmatics description: Some parents struggle after a divorce and withdraw; it is not the child's fault, and the child can tell the other parent or a trusted adult. Who acts: parents, divorce, child. 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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, divorce, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:38 # text = Some parents struggle after a divorce and withdraw; it is not the child's fault, and the child can tell the other parent or a trusted adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 struggle struggle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 divorce divorce NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 8 withdraw withdraw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 14 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 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 25 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **struggle** | present | some parents | | | | after a divorce | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **withdraw** | present | some parents *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | divorce | the child's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | the child | | the other parent or a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | 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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:38`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Cold parents: always on the phone, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/36/) - next →: [Cold parents: always on the phone, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/39/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone/)