«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 38

It's not his fault, and he's not alone: he can tell a teacher, or call Childline for free on 0800 1111.

Who acts: money, Jay · What happens: not be, tell, call · To what, where: fault, teacher, Childline, 0800 · 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 (money, Jay), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fault	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fault	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fault	nmod:poss
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 alone	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 alone	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 alone	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 alone	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 alone	advmod
11	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fault	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fault	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 teacher	det
17	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 call	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 call	cc
20	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	conj
21	Childline	Childline	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 call	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 free	case
23	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 call	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 0800	case
25	0800	0800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 call	obl
26	1111	1111	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 0800	list
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fault	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	money	Jay's fault				tree rules
2	not is	present	Jay				alone property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	can	Jay		a teacher			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
4	call	infinitive	Jay not said here	Childline		0800	for free	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent childline=Theme for free=Beneficiary

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:38.

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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