--- title: When a parent marries again (remarries), the new husband or wife bec… — Grandparents, divorce and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: When a parent marries again (remarries), the new husband or wife becomes the child's step-parent, so a child can have a dad and a stepdad. Who acts: parent, new husband, child. 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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 (parent, new husband, child), 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:19 # text = When a parent marries again (remarries), the new husband or wife becomes the child's step-parent, so a child can have a dad and a stepdad. # 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 ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 marries marry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 7 remarries remarry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 stepdad stepdad NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **marry** | present | a parent | | | | again | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **remarry** | present | a parent *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **become** | present | the new husband or wife | the child's step parent | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **have** | can | a child | a dad and a stepdad | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Patient | 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:19`. **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 ×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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