«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 27
Sometimes she does, because the washing machine has been broken for a month and there's no money to fix it.
Who acts: Holly, money · What happens: do, break, be, fix · To what, where: washing machine, money
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 (Holly, money), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 does | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 broken | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 machine | det |
| 7 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 machine | compound |
| 8 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 broken | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 broken | aux:pass |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 does | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 month | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 month | det |
| 14 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broken | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 's | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 's | expl |
| 17 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 broken | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 money | det |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 's | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fix | mark |
| 21 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 money | acl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fix | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Holly | sometimes property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | break | present · perfect · passive | the washing machine | month | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no money | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fix | to-infinitive | no money not said here | money | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:27.
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): no change. 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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