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title: At school a kid sneers at Dakota, «Your dad's a criminal, that's wel… — Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison · tree and pragmatics
description: At school a kid sneers at Dakota, «Your dad's a criminal, that's well sus» («sus» = dodgy). Who acts: kid, dad, that. A sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison, sentence 32

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At school a kid sneers at Dakota, «Your dad's a criminal, that's well sus» («sus» = dodgy).

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**Who acts:** kid, dad, that · **What happens:** sneer, be · **To what, where:** school, criminal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents far away: the army, work abroad, prison» 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 (kid, dad, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:32
# text = At school a kid sneers at Dakota, «Your dad's a criminal, that's well sus» («sus» = dodgy).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sneers	sneer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
10	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	criminal	criminal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	sus	sus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
25	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	23	dep	_	_
26	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	appos	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneer** | present | a kid |  |  | school |  | at Dakota | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Your dad | a criminal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | sus, well *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:everyday:519-parents-far-away-the-army-work-abroad-prison.lesson:32`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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