--- title: Children should not have to choose between parents; where a child li… — Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not yo… · tree and pragmatics description: Children should not have to choose between parents; where a child lives ("custody") is a grown-up decision, and "I love you both, I don't want to choose" is a fair thing to say. Who acts: Children, child, UK word. 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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 (Children, child, UK word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.lesson:10 # text = Children should not have to choose between parents; where a child lives ("custody") is a grown-up decision, and "I love you both, I don't want to choose" is a fair thing to say. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 between between ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:csubj 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 16 custody custody NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 21 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 30 nmod:unmarked _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 acl _ _ 46 . . 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 | **not** **have** | should | Children | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **choose** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* | | | | | between parents | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | present | a child | custody | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme custody=Location | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | | a up decision and a fair thing | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **love** *in a quote* | present | a UK word *= word* | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 7 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a UK word *= word* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **choose** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | a UK word *= word* *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | present | | a fair thing | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.lesson:10`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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