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title: Divorce or separation means parents stop being a couple; they are st… — Divorce and two homes · tree and pragmatics
description: Divorce or separation means parents stop being a couple; they are still both the child's parents. Who acts: Divorce, 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.
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# Divorce and two homes, sentence 39

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Divorce or separation means parents stop being a couple; they are still both the child's parents.

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**Who acts:** Divorce, parents · **What happens:** mean, stop, be · **To what, where:** parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Divorce, 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:39
# text = Divorce or separation means parents stop being a couple; they are still both the child's 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): no change
1	Divorce	divorce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	separation	separation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	_	18	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **mean** | present | Divorce or separation |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** | present | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | present | parents *= parent* | the child's parents |  |  | still |  | tree rules |

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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:39`.

**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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