«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 16
Blunt questions aren't always meant to hurt, but you still don't owe an answer.
Who acts: you · What happens: not mean, hurt, not owe · To what, where: Blunt questions, answer
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 (you), 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 | Blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 questions | amod |
| 2 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 meant | aux:pass |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 meant | advmod |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 meant | advmod |
| 6 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hurt | mark |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 meant | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 owe | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 owe | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 owe | nsubj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 owe | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 owe | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 owe | advmod |
| 15 | owe | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 meant | conj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 answer | det |
| 17 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owe | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present · passive | Blunt questions | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | not owe | present · do-support | you | a answer | still | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent answer=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:16.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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