--- title: «Go and ask your father» can mean the parent is unsure, wants to dec… — Closed doors, whispers and secrets · tree and pragmatics description: «Go and ask your father» can mean the parent is unsure, wants to decide together, or has no energy left right now. Who acts: parent. A sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Closed doors, whispers and secrets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/) / 19 # Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 19 «Go and ask your father» can mean the parent is unsure, wants to decide together, or has no energy left right now. **Who acts:** parent · **What happens:** go, ask, mean, be, want, decide · **To what, where:** father, energy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson:19 # text = «Go and ask your father» can mean the parent is unsure, wants to decide together, or has no energy left right now. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 nsubj _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 unsure unsure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 together together ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 24 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 right right ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 now now ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | your father | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | | 3 | **mean** | can | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the parent | | | | | unsure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **want** | present | the parent *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **decide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the parent *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **have** | present | the parent *not said here* | no energy | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | | 8 | **leave** | participle | | no energy *not said here* | | | now | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson:19`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Closed doors, whispers and secrets, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/18/) - next →: [Big feelings in big people, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/)