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title: And sometimes the end is gentle: Avery's mum and dad sit side by sid… — Divorce and two homes · tree and pragmatics
description: And sometimes the end is gentle: Avery's mum and dad sit side by side at her school play. Who acts: end, mum. 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.
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# Divorce and two homes, sentence 34

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And sometimes the end is gentle: Avery's mum and dad sit side by side at her school play.

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**Who acts:** end, mum · **What happens:** be, sit, play · **To what, where:** side, school play

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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 (end, mum), 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:34
# text = And sometimes the end is gentle: Avery's mum and dad sit side by side at her school play.
# 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): no change
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Avery	Avery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is** | present | the end |  |  |  |  | gentle, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present | Avery's mum and dad | side by side |  | Mum's school play |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at play=Location |
| 3 | **play** |  | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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:516-divorce-and-two-homes.lesson:34`.

**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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