--- title: Mum doesn't pretend Dad is busy; she tells him the truth: «This is a… — The parent who left, and a new partner · tree and pragmatics description: Mum doesn't pretend Dad is busy; she tells him the truth: «This is about your dad, not about you. Who acts: Mum, Dad, This. A sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The parent who left, and a new partner](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner/) / 3 # The parent who left, and a new partner, sentence 3 Mum doesn't pretend Dad is busy; she tells him the truth: «This is about your dad, not about you. **Who acts:** Mum, Dad, This · **What happens:** not pretend, be, tell · **To what, where:** truth, Dad · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The parent who left, and a new partner» 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 (Mum, Dad, This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.lesson:3 # text = Mum doesn't pretend Dad is busy; she tells him the truth: «This is about your dad, not about you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 pretend pretend VERB VB _ 0 root _ _ 5 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 16 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **pretend** | present · do-support | Mum | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | Dad | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Mum | the truth | Dad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient truth=Topic | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | This | | | | | about your dad; about Dad | tree rules | 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:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.lesson:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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