«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 45
Walking away and telling a teacher is smarter than hitting back; schools must deal with bullying.
Who acts: Walking, schools · What happens: walk away, tell, be, hit back, deal · To what, where: teacher · 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 (Walking, schools), 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 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 smarter | csubj |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Walking | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 telling | cc |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Walking | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teacher | det |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 telling | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 smarter | cop |
| 8 | smarter | smart | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 hitting | mark |
| 10 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 smarter | advcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 hitting | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 smarter | punct |
| 13 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 deal | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 deal | aux |
| 15 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 smarter | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 bullying | case |
| 17 | bullying | bully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deal | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 smarter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | gerund | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Walking | smart property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hit back | gerund | Walking not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | deal | must | schools | with bullying | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bully=Theme |
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:45.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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