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title: After a split, parents sometimes say unkind things about each other… — When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babi… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a split, parents sometimes say unkind things about each other ("bad-mouthing"); it is not fair on the child, who can love both parents. Who acts: parents, mouthing, child. A sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» of the reflection course of 
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# When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes, sentence 11

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After a split, parents sometimes say unkind things about each other ("bad-mouthing"); it is not fair on the child, who can love both parents.

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**Who acts:** parents, mouthing, child · **What happens:** say, not be, love · **To what, where:** unkind things, parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When home feels shaky: rows, hospitals, new babies and big changes» 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, mouthing, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.lesson:11
# text = After a split, parents sometimes say unkind things about each other ("bad-mouthing"); it is not fair on the child, who can love both parents.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 014-when-home-feels-shaky-rows-hospitals-new-babies-and-big-changes.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	split	split	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
8	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nmod	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	mouthing	mouthing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | parents | unkind things |  |  | after a split | about each; sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | mouthing |  |  |  |  | on the child; fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **love** | can | the child | both parents |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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