--- title: Carrying messages between parents is not a child's job. — Grandparents, divorce and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: Carrying messages between parents is not a child's job. Who acts: Carrying. A sentence of the lesson «Grandparents, divorce and step-families» 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/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/11/) [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/) / [Grandparents, divorce and step-families](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/) / 11 # Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 11 Carrying messages between parents is not a child's job. **Who acts:** Carrying · **What happens:** carry, not be · **To what, where:** messages, job This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandparents, divorce and step-families» 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 (Carrying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.lesson:11 # text = Carrying messages between parents is not a child's job. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.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 1 Carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 between between ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | gerund | | messages | | | | between parents | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Carrying | a child's job | | | | | 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:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.lesson:11`. **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. **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: [Grandparents, divorce and step-families, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/10/) - next →: [Grandparents, divorce and step-families, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/)