--- title: Divorce is about the grown-ups' relationship, not about the children… — Grandparents, divorce and step-families · tree and pragmatics description: Divorce is about the grown-ups' relationship, not about the children: it is never the child's fault, both parents still love them, and children should never be put in the middle, carrying messages or choosing sides. Who acts: Divorce, parents, relationship. 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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 (Divorce, parents, relationship), 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:2 # text = Divorce is about the grown-ups' relationship, not about the children: it is never the child's fault, both parents still love them, and children should never be put in the middle, carrying messages or choosing sides. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Divorce divorce NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 5 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 relationship relationship NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 24 both both DET DT _ 25 det:predet _ _ 25 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 advcl _ _ 41 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 choosing choose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 conj _ _ 44 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Divorce | | | | | about the grown ups's relationship and the children | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Divorce | the child's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **love** | present | both parents | children *= child* | | | still | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **put** | should · passive | the grown ups's relationship and the children *not said here* | children | | the middle | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in middle=Destination | | 6 | **carry** | gerund | the grown ups's relationship and the children *not said here* | messages | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | | 7 | **choose** | gerund | the grown ups's relationship and the children *not said here* | sides | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | 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:2`. **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, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Grandparents, divorce and step-families, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/1/) - next →: [Grandparents, divorce and step-families, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/96-grandparents-divorce-and-step-families/)