«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 18
Your parents dead or somethin'?» a kid asks Darius.
Who acts: parents · What happens: ask · To what, where: Darius
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 (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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parents | amod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 somethin | cc |
| 5 | somethin | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 dead | conj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 parents | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 asks | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kid | det |
| 10 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asks | nsubj |
| 11 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Darius | Darius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asks | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | Your parents | Darius | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent darius=Recipient |
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:18.
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, R6-punct-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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