«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 15
He tells his teacher the next day, and the school calls a charity that helps kids with a parent in prison.
Who acts: Jamal, school, charity · What happens: tell, call, help · To what, where: teacher, charity, kids · 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 (Jamal, school, charity), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 calls | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 calls | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 school | det |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calls | nsubj |
| 12 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tells | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 charity | det |
| 14 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calls | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 helps | nsubj |
| 16 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 charity | acl:relcl |
| 17 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 helps | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 parent | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 parent | det |
| 20 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kids | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 prison | case |
| 22 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 parent | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Jamal | Jamal's teacher | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | |||
| 2 | call | present | the school | a charity | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent charity=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | help | present | a charity | kids | with a parent in prison | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent kid=Beneficiary with parent=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:15.
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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