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title: When grown-ups say someone is on their own again, it usually means t… — Manners and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: When grown-ups say someone is on their own again, it usually means their partner has left or they have split up; the kind thing is to be friendly and not gossip. Who acts: grown ups, someone, it, partner. A sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school
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# Manners and kindness, sentence 23

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When grown-ups say someone is on their own again, it usually means their partner has left or they have split up; the kind thing is to be friendly and not gossip.

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**Who acts:** grown ups, someone, it, partner, ups, kind thing · **What happens:** say, be, mean, leave, split up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (grown ups, someone, it, partner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:23
# text = When grown-ups say someone is on their own again, it usually means their partner has left or they have split up; the kind thing is to be friendly and not gossip.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 051-manners-and-kindness.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	_	5	mark	_	_
2	grown	grown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
32	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | grown ups |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | someone |  |  |  | again | own *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | it |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **leave** | present · perfect | ups's partner |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **split up** | present · perfect | ups *= up* |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | the kind thing |  |  |  |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:23`.

**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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