«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 47
Adoptive parents are real parents; a calm, proud answer can stop a cruel comment.
Who acts: Adoptive parents, calm proud answer · What happens: be, stop · To what, where: real parents, cruel comment
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 (Adoptive parents, calm proud answer), 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 | Adoptive | adoptive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 parents | amod |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 parents | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 parents | cop |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 parents | amod |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 answer | det |
| 8 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 answer | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 calm | punct |
| 10 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 answer | amod |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stop | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | aux |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 parents | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 comment | det |
| 15 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 comment | amod |
| 16 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stop | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 parents | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Adoptive parents | real parents | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | can | a calm proud answer | a cruel comment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality comment=Eventuality |
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:47.
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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