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title: Long journeys between homes are tiring; children can say so, and pla… — Divorce and two homes · tree and pragmatics
description: Long journeys between homes are tiring; children can say so, and plans can sometimes change. Who acts: Long journeys, children, plans. 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 45

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Long journeys between homes are tiring; children can say so, and plans can sometimes change.

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**Who acts:** Long journeys, children, plans · **What happens:** be, say, change · **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 (Long journeys, children, plans), 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:45
# text = Long journeys between homes are tiring; children can say so, and plans can sometimes change.
# 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	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	tiring	tire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | Long journeys between homes |  |  |  |  | tire *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | children |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **change** | can | plans |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:45`.

**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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