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title: When a parent leaves or doesn't keep in touch, it is never the child… — The parent who left, and a new partner · tree and pragmatics
description: When a parent leaves or doesn't keep in touch, it is never the child's fault. Who acts: parent. 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.
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# The parent who left, and a new partner, sentence 38

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When a parent leaves or doesn't keep in touch, it is never the child's fault.

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**Who acts:** parent · **What happens:** leave, not keep, not be · **To what, where:** touch, fault

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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 (parent), 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:38
# text = When a parent leaves or doesn't keep in touch, it is never the child's fault.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
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	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **keep** | present · do-support | a parent *not said here* |  |  | touch |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in touch=Location |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | parent | the child's fault |  |  |  |  | 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:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner.lesson:38`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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