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title: When parents are «splitting up», they are separating or divorcing, a… — Food, drinks and feeling ill · tree and pragmatics
description: When parents are «splitting up», they are separating or divorcing, and a child can feel ill from the worry. Who acts: parents, children, child. A sentence of the lesson «Food, drinks and feeling ill» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Food, drinks and feeling ill, sentence 20

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When parents are «splitting up», they are separating or divorcing, and a child can feel ill from the worry.

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**Who acts:** parents, children, child · **What happens:** split up, separate, divorce, feel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food, drinks and feeling ill» 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 (parents, children, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.lesson:20
# text = When parents are «splitting up», they are separating or divorcing, and a child can feel ill from the worry.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
5	splitting	split	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	separating	separate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	divorcing	divorce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split up** *in a quote* | present · progressive | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **separate** | present · progressive | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **divorce** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | can | a child |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:081-food-drinks-and-feeling-ill.lesson:20`.

**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): R8-pos-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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