--- title: When parents say they «need some time apart», they live in different… — Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with s… · tree and pragmatics description: When parents say they «need some time apart», they live in different homes for a while to sort things out; it is never the child's fault. Who acts: parents, siblings, parent. 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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, siblings, parent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:18 # text = When parents say they «need some time apart», they live in different homes for a while to sort things out; it is never the child's fault. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 apart apart ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 sort sort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | parents | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **need** *in a quote* | present | siblings *= sibling* | | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **live** | present | siblings *= sibling* | | | different homes | while | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location | | 4 | **sort out** | to-infinitive | siblings *= sibling* *not said here* | things | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | parent | the child's fault | | | | | 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:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:18`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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