--- title: When parents divorce or separate, they stop being a couple, but they… — Divorce and two homes · tree and pragmatics description: When parents divorce or separate, they stop being a couple, but they never stop being parents. Who acts: parents. A sentence of the lesson «Divorce and two homes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Divorce and two homes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/) / 0 # Divorce and two homes, sentence 0 When parents divorce or separate, they stop being a couple, but they never stop being parents. **Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** divorce, separate, stop, be, not stop · **To what, where:** couple, parents This is a sentence of the lesson «Divorce and two homes» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:516-divorce-and-two-homes.lesson:0 # text = When parents divorce or separate, they stop being a couple, but they never stop being parents. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 516-divorce-and-two-homes.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 divorce divorce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 separate separate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 18 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **divorce** | present | parents | | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **separate** | present | parents *not said here* | | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **stop** | present | parents *= parent* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | a couple | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **stop** | present | parents *= parent* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **is a** | gerund | parents *= parent* *not said here* | parents | | | | | tree rules | 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:516-divorce-and-two-homes.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/515-mum-on-her-own-dad-on-his-own/39/) - next →: [Divorce and two homes, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/)