Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 19

«Go and ask your father» can mean the parent is unsure, wants to decide together, or has no energy left right now.

Who acts: parent · What happens: go, ask, mean, be, want, decide · To what, where: father, energy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life 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 (parent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	conj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	nsubj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	aux
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 parent	det
11	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unsure	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 unsure	cop
13	unsure	unsure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mean	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wants	punct
15	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 unsure	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 decide	mark
17	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wants	xcomp
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 decide	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 has	cc
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 unsure	conj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 energy	det
23	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 energy	acl:relcl
25	right	right	ADV	_	26 now	advmod
26	now	now	ADV	_	24 left	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive			your father			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	mean	can						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the parent				unsure property	tree rules
5	want	present	the parent not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	decide not said to happen	to-infinitive	the parent not said here				together property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	present	the parent not said here	no energy				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient
8	leave	participle		no energy not said here		now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:adult-life:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson:19.

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. 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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