«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 42
Humour can stop small teasing; if it keeps going, or it's about your family, tell an adult.
Who acts: Humour, tease · What happens: stop, keep, go, be, tell · To what, where: small teasing, adult · 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 (Humour, tease), 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 | Humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | aux |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 teasing | amod |
| 5 | teasing | tease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stop | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 keeps | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 keeps | nsubj |
| 9 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | advcl |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 keeps | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 family | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 family | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 family | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 family | cop |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 family | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 family | nmod:poss |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keeps | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stop | parataxis |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 adult | det |
| 21 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | can | Humour | small teasing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tease=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | keep a condition, not said to happen | present | tease | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | tease not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | tease | about your family | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=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:42.
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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