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title: Liking a parent's new partner does not mean loving the other parent… — Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Liking a parent's new partner does not mean loving the other parent less; hearts can hold more than one person. Who acts: Liking, hearts. A sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness, sentence 9

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Liking a parent's new partner does not mean loving the other parent less; hearts can hold more than one person.

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**Who acts:** Liking, hearts · **What happens:** like, not mean, love, hold · **To what, where:** new partner, other parent, one person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hard things at home: broken promises, silence, money and illness» 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 (Liking, hearts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:9
# text = Liking a parent's new partner does not mean loving the other parent less; hearts can hold more than one person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Liking	like	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	partner	partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	loving	love	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	21	advmod	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | gerund |  | a parent's new partner |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot partner=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Liking |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **love** *not said to happen* | gerund | Liking *not said here* | the other parent |  |  |  | less *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hold** | can | hearts | one person |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |

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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:013-hard-things-at-home-broken-promises-silence-money-and-illness.lesson:9`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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