--- title: A kind lady from the court comes to ask what he thinks: children are… — Divorce and two homes · tree and pragmatics description: A kind lady from the court comes to ask what he thinks: children are listened to, but they don't have to choose; the grown-ups decide. Who acts: kind lady, Craig, children, grown ups. 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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 (kind lady, Craig, children, grown ups), 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:33 # text = A kind lady from the court comes to ask what he thinks: children are listened to, but they don't have to choose; the grown-ups decide. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 listened listen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 16 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | a kind lady from the court | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | a kind lady from the court *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Craig | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **listen** | present · passive | | children | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | children *= child* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **choose** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **decide** | present | the grown ups | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:516-divorce-and-two-homes.lesson:33`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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: [Divorce and two homes, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/31/) - next →: [Divorce and two homes, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/34/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/)