«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 11

It's cruel, and it isn't true: children go into care because parents can't cope or can't keep them safe, not because the child isn't wanted.

Who acts: care, children, parents · What happens: be, not be, go, not cope, not keep, not want · To what, where: care, parents, child

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 (care, children, parents), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cruel	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cruel	cop
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 true	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 true	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 true	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 true	advmod
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cruel	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	nsubj
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 care	case
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 cope	mark
16	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cope	nsubj
17	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cope	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 cope	advmod
19	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	advcl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 keep	cc
21	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 keep	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 keep	advmod
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cope	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keep	obj
25	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 keep	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wanted	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 wanted	advmod
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 wanted	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 child	det
30	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wanted	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 wanted	aux:pass
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 wanted	advmod
33	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 cope	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cruel	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	care			cruel property	tree rules
2	not is	present	care			true property	tree rules
3	go	present	children		care		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into care=Initial_Location
4	not cope	can	parents				vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not keep	can	parents not said here	parents = parent		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	not want	present · passive		the child			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes.lesson:11.

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): 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.

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