«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 55

«Do a runner» means run off, «L» means a loss, «jailbird» is an old word for a prisoner, «bruh» means bro, «mardy» means sulky, «steaming» is Scots slang for drunk, and «mortified» means terribly embarrassed.

Who acts: Do, L · What happens: mean, run off, be, mardy, steam, mortify · To what, where: loss, old word, bro, Scots slang, sulky, Scots · 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 (Do, L), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
2	Do	Do	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 runner	det
4	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Do	obj
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 means	ccomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 run	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 L	punct
11	L	l	X	_	13 means	nsubj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 L	punct
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 loss	det
15	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 »	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 jailbird	punct
18	jailbird	jailbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 »	compound
19	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loss	conj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 word	cop
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 word	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 word	amod
23	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 prisoner	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 prisoner	det
26	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 word	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 means	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 bruh	punct
29	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	31 means	discourse
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 bruh	punct
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 run	parataxis
32	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 mardy	punct
34	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 mardy	punct
35	mardy	mardy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 means	conj
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 mardy	punct
37	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 mardy	ccomp
38	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 means	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 steaming	punct
40	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 steaming	punct
41	steaming	steam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 mardy	conj
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	41 steaming	punct
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 Scots	cop
44	Scots	Scot	PROPN	Number=Plur	45 slang	compound
45	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mardy	obl
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 drunk	case
47	drunk	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 slang	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 mortified	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 mortified	cc
50	«	«	PUNCT	_	51 mortified	punct
51	mortified	mortify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 run	parataxis
52	»	»	PUNCT	_	51 mortified	punct
53	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 mortified	conj
54	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	55 embarrassed	advmod
55	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 means	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Do			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	run off	participle				tree rules
3	mean	present	L	a loss and jailbird »		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Topic
4	is a	present		a old word	for a prisoner	tree rules
5	mean	present		bro		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=Topic
6	mardy in a quote	infinitive		Scots slang for drunk		tree rules
7	mean	present		sulky		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sulky=Topic
8	steam in a quote	gerund				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	is a	present		Scots		tree rules
10	mortify in a quote	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
11	mean	present			embarrassed property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:55.

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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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