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title: Children often wrongly believe their parents' divorce is their fault… — Grandparents, divorce and step-families · tree and pragmatics
description: Children often wrongly believe their parents' divorce is their fault; it never is. Who acts: Children, divorce, parents. 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.
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# Grandparents, divorce and step-families, sentence 18

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Children often wrongly believe their parents' divorce is their fault; it never is.

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**Who acts:** Children, divorce, parents · **What happens:** believe, be, not be, divorce · **To what, where:** fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Children, divorce, 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:18
# text = Children often wrongly believe their parents' divorce is their fault; it never is.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	divorce	divorce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **believe** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | often, wrongly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | children's parents's divorce | children's fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **be** | present | Divorce |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **divorce** |  | children's parents |  |  |  |  |  | nom divorce «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:096-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families.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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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