--- title: A single parent does the work of two people and often gets very tire… — Mum on her own, Dad on his own · tree and pragmatics description: A single parent does the work of two people and often gets very tired; it is not because the child is too much. Who acts: single parent, parent, two people. 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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 (single parent, parent, two people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.lesson:28 # text = A single parent does the work of two people and often gets very tired; it is not because the child is too much. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 often often ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 too too ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | a single parent | the work of two people | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 2 | **get** | present | a single parent *not said here* | | | | | often, tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | parent | | | | | much *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | | two people | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.lesson:28`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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: [Mum on her own, Dad on his own, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own/27/) - next →: [Mum on her own, Dad on his own, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own/)