«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 13

Minnie, who is adopted, gets told, «Your real mum gave you away.» She doesn't even blink: «My real mum is at home making my tea.» A kid sneers at Jamal, «Your dad's a jailbird!» (an old word for someone in prison).

Who acts: real mum, mum, kid, dad · What happens: adopt, tell, give away, not blink, be, make · To what, where: Minnie, you, home, tea, Jamal, jailbird · 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 (real mum, mum, kid, dad), 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	Minnie	Minnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Minnie	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 adopted	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 adopted	aux:pass
5	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Minnie	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Minnie	punct
7	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
11	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mum	nmod:poss
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mum	amod
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 gave	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
19	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 blink	nsubj
20	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 blink	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 blink	advmod
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 blink	advmod
23	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	parataxis
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 blink	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 home	punct
26	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mum	nmod:poss
27	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mum	amod
28	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 home	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 home	cop
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 home	case
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blink	parataxis
32	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 home	advcl
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 tea	nmod:poss
34	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 making	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 making	punct
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 making	punct
37	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 kid	det
38	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sneers	nsubj
39	sneers	sneer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 blink	parataxis
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 Jamal	case
41	Jamal	Jamal	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 sneers	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 's	punct
43	«	«	PUNCT	_	46 's	punct
44	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 dad	nmod:poss
45	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 jailbird	nsubj
46	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 jailbird	cop
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 jailbird	det
48	jailbird	jailbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sneers	ccomp
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	48 jailbird	punct
50	»	»	PUNCT	_	48 jailbird	punct
51	(	(	PUNCT	_	54 word	punct
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 word	det
53	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 word	amod
54	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 jailbird	appos
55	for	for	ADP	_	56 someone	case
56	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	54 word	nmod
57	in	in	ADP	_	58 prison	case
58	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 someone	nmod
59	)	)	PUNCT	_	54 word	punct
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	adopt	present · passive		Minnie				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive		Minnie				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give away in a quote	past	Your real mum		you		away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	not blink	present · do-support	mum					tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	My real mum			home		tree rules
6	make in a quote	gerund	My real mum not said here	my tea				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tea=Product
7	sneer	present	a kid			Jamal		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a in a quote	present	Your dad	a jailbird				tree rules

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:13.

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 ×5. 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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