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title: A girl finds out Sienna-Rae is in foster care and says, «Your own mu… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl finds out Sienna-Rae is in foster care and says, «Your own mum didn't want you.» Sienna-Rae runs to the toilets and cries. Who acts: girl, Sienna, own mum, Sienna Rae. A sentence of the lesson ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wit
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# «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 10

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A girl finds out Sienna-Rae is in foster care and says, «Your own mum didn't want you.» Sienna-Rae runs to the toilets and cries.

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**Who acts:** girl, Sienna, own mum, Sienna Rae · **What happens:** find out, be, say, not want, run, cry · **To what, where:** foster care, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl, Sienna, own mum, Sienna Rae), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes.lesson:10
# text = A girl finds out Sienna-Rae is in foster care and says, «Your own mum didn't want you.» Sienna-Rae runs to the toilets and cries.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	Sienna	Sienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Rae	Rae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
16	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
25	Sienna	Sienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	Rae	Rae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	toilets	toilet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	cries	cry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | present | a girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Sienna |  |  | foster care |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Your own mum | you |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | present | Sienna Rae |  |  |  |  | to the toilets *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to toilet=Result |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Sienna Rae *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes.lesson:10`.

**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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