--- title: Parents arguing at handovers puts a child in the middle; a child may… — Divorce and two homes · tree and pragmatics description: Parents arguing at handovers puts a child in the middle; a child may ask them to stop, though it doesn't always work. Who acts: Parents, child, middle. 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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 (Parents, child, middle), 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:46 # text = Parents arguing at handovers puts a child in the middle; a child may ask them to stop, though it doesn't always work. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 arguing argue VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 handovers handover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 25 advmod _ _ 25 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | Parents *not said here* | | | handovers | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **put** | present | Parents | a child | | the middle | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme in middle=Destination | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | may | a child | | parents *= parent* | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **work** | present · do-support | middle | | | | | always *property* | vn employment-95.3 «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:46`. **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): 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, 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/45/) - next →: [Divorce and two homes, 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/47/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/)