«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 43
Some children ask about other families because they're curious; some say things to hurt.
Who acts: children, some · What happens: ask, be, say, hurt · To what, where: things · 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 (children, some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 families | case |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 families | amod |
| 6 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | obl |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 curious | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 curious | nsubj |
| 9 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 curious | cop |
| 10 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ask | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 say | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hurt | mark |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 things | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | some children | about other families | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about family=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | children = child | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | some | things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hurt | to-infinitive | some not said here | things not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:43.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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