«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 53

A child whose parent drinks too much is not to blame; they can tell a teacher or call Childline for free on 0800 1111.

Who acts: parent, child, children · What happens: drink, be, not blame, tell, call · To what, where: much, teacher, Childline, 0800 · 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 (parent, child, children), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 parent	nmod:poss
4	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drinks	nsubj
5	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 child	acl:relcl
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drinks	obj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 blame	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 blame	mark
11	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 is	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 is	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 teacher	det
17	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 call	cc
19	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	conj
20	Childline	Childline	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 call	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 free	case
22	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 call	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 0800	case
24	0800	0800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 call	obl
25	1111	1111	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 0800	list
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	drink	present	parent	much				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	be	present	a child					tree rules
3	not blame	to-infinitive	a child not said here					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	can	children = child		a teacher			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
5	call	infinitive	children = child not said here	Childline		0800	for free	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent childline=Theme for free=Beneficiary

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:53.

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, 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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