«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 49

You don't owe anyone an answer about your family; «None of your business» or «Dunno» is allowed, and keeping something private isn't lying.

Who acts: You, keeping · What happens: not owe, allow, keep, not lie · To what, where: answer, anyone, None, something

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 (You, keeping), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 owe	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 owe	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 owe	advmod
4	owe	owe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 owe	iobj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 answer	det
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owe	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 family	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 family	nmod:poss
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answer	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 allowed	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 None	punct
13	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	23 allowed	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 business	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 business	nmod:poss
16	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 None	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 None	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 Dunno	cc
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 Dunno	punct
20	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 None	conj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 Dunno	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 allowed	aux:pass
23	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 owe	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lying	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 keeping	cc
26	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 lying	csubj
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 keeping	obj
28	private	private	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keeping	obj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 lying	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 lying	advmod
31	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 allowed	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 owe	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not owe	present · do-support	You	a answer	anyone	about your family	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Goal answer=Theme
2	allow	present · passive		None			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
3	keep	gerund		something			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent something=Theme private=Attribute
4	not lie	present · progressive	keeping				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:49.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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