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title: A single parent does the job of two people and gets very tired, and… — Mum on her own, Dad on his own · tree and pragmatics
description: A single parent does the job of two people and gets very tired, and that is never because the child is «too much». Who acts: single parent, that, two people. A sentence of the lesson «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Mum on her own, Dad on his own, sentence 4

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A single parent does the job of two people and gets very tired, and that is never because the child is «too much».

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**Who acts:** single parent, that, two people · **What happens:** do, get, not be, job · **To what, where:** job

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum on her own, Dad on his own» 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 (single parent, that, 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:4
# text = A single parent does the job of two people and gets very tired, and that is never 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): no change
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	job	job	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	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **do** | present | a single parent | the job of two people |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | present | a single parent *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **job** |  | two people |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own.lesson:4`.

**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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