«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 10

A girl finds out Sienna-Rae is in foster care and says, «Your own mum didn't want you.» Sienna-Rae runs to the toilets and cries.

Who acts: girl, Sienna, own mum, Sienna Rae · What happens: find out, be, say, not want, run, cry · To what, where: foster care, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» of the everyday 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 (girl, Sienna, own mum, Sienna Rae), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 finds	compound:prt
5	Sienna	Sienna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 care	nsubj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Sienna	punct
7	Rae	Rae	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sienna	flat
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 care	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 care	case
10	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 care	compound
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
16	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mum	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mum	amod
18	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 want	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 want	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 want	advmod
21	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 want	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
25	Sienna	Sienna	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Rae	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Sienna	punct
27	Rae	Rae	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 runs	nsubj
28	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 toilets	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 toilets	det
31	toilets	toilet	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 runs	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cries	cc
33	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 runs	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find out	present	a girl				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Sienna		foster care		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	a girl not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not want in a quote	past · do-support	Your own mum	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
5	run	present	Sienna Rae			to the toilets result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to toilet=Result
6	cry speech: express	present	Sienna Rae not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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, 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:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes.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): 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.

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