--- title: A boy in Ohio believed his parents' divorce was his fault and kept i… — Grandparents, divorce and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio believed his parents' divorce was his fault and kept it secret for a year; he became quiet and angry until a counsellor helped him see it was not his fault at all. Who acts: boy, divorce, counsellor, parents. 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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 (boy, divorce, counsellor, parents), 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:16 # text = A boy in Ohio believed his parents' divorce was his fault and kept it secret for a year; he became quiet and angry until a counsellor helped him see it was not his fault at all. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 divorce divorce NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 until until SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 counsellor counsellor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl 29 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 ccomp _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | past | a boy in Ohio | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | past | boy's parents's divorce | boy's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | past | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | Divorce | | | year | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **become** | past | boy | | | | | quiet *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **help** | past | a counsellor | boy | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **see** | infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **not** **is a** | past | counsellor | boy's fault | | all | | | tree rules | | 8 | **divorce** | | boy's parents | | | | | | nom divorce «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:16`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Grandparents, divorce and step-families, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/15/) - next →: [Grandparents, divorce and step-families, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/)