«Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 7

He wants to punch him, but he walks off and tells Mr Hassan, who deals with it that afternoon.

Who acts: face · What happens: want, punch, walk off, tell, deal · To what, where: face, Mr · 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 (face), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 punch	mark
4	punch	punch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 punch	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walks	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 walks	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 walks	nsubj
9	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 walks	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tells	cc
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 walks	conj
13	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tells	obj
14	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Mr	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 deals	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 deals	nsubj
17	deals	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tells	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 deals	obl
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 afternoon	det
21	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 deals	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	face					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	punch not said to happen	to-infinitive	face not said here	face				vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	walk off	present	face					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	present	face not said here		Mr			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mr=Recipient
5	deal	present				afternoon	with fail	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme

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:7.

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): R5-strong ×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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