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title: Divorce is never the child's fault; parents split up for grown-up re… — Divorce and two homes · tree and pragmatics
description: Divorce is never the child's fault; parents split up for grown-up reasons. 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 40

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Divorce is never the child's fault; parents split up for grown-up reasons.

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**Who acts:** Divorce, parents · **What happens:** not be, split up, grow up · **To what, where:** fault

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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:40
# text = Divorce is never the child's fault; parents split up for grown-up reasons.
# 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Divorce	divorce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=13:compound
16	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Divorce | the child's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **split up** | past | parents |  |  |  |  | for grown reasons | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:40`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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