«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 50
Teasing about things a child can't help, like money or a broken washing machine, is cruel; schools can help quietly.
Who acts: child, schools · What happens: tease, not help, break, be, help · To what, where: money
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 (child, 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 | Teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 cruel | nsubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 things | case |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Teasing | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | nsubj |
| 6 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 help | advmod |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 things | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 money | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 money | case |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 machine | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 machine | det |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 machine | amod |
| 15 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 machine | compound |
| 16 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 money | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teasing | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cruel | cop |
| 19 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 help | punct |
| 21 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 help | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 help | aux |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cruel | parataxis |
| 24 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 23 help | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 cruel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | gerund | about things | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not help | can | a child | money or a broken washing machine | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | cruel property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | help | can | schools | quietly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:50.
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, R8-pos-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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