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title: When parents split up ("separate"), children often hope it will go b… — Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: When parents split up ("separate"), children often hope it will go back to how it was; over months, a new normal in two homes can feel okay, even good. Who acts: parents, children, Rowing, new normal. A sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflecti
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# Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault, sentence 8

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When parents split up ("separate"), children often hope it will go back to how it was; over months, a new normal in two homes can feel okay, even good.

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**Who acts:** parents, children, Rowing, new normal · **What happens:** split up, hope, go back, be, feel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents shouting, parents splitting: it's not your fault» of the reflection 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 (parents, children, Rowing, new normal), 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:8
# text = When parents split up ("separate"), children often hope it will go back to how it was; over months, a new normal in two homes can feel okay, even good.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	normal	normal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
34	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	parataxis	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **split up** | past | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hope** | present | children |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go back** | future | Rowing |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | to months |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | can | a new normal in two homes |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:reflection:012-parents-shouting-parents-splitting-it-s-not-your-fault.lesson:8`.

**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.

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

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