«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 30
A kid says to Elijah, «That's weird, you can't have two dads.» «Well, I do.
Who acts: kid, That, Elijah · What happens: say, be, not have, do · To what, where: Elijah, two dads · 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 (kid, That, Elijah), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kid | det |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Elijah | case |
| 5 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 weird | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 weird | punct |
| 8 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 weird | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 weird | cop |
| 10 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 have | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 dads | nummod |
| 17 | dads | dad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 21 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 24 do | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a kid | Elijah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to elijah=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | That | weird property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not have in a quote | can | Elijah | two dads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | a kid = kid | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:30.
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): R7-rel-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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