--- title: It's cruel, and it isn't true: children go into care because parents… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: It's cruel, and it isn't true: children go into care because parents can't cope or can't keep them safe, not because the child isn't wanted. Who acts: care, children, parents. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, children, parents), 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:11 # text = It's cruel, and it isn't true: children go into care because parents can't cope or can't keep them safe, not because the child isn't wanted. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 cope cope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 wanted want VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | care | | | | | cruel *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | care | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | present | children | | | care | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into care=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **not** **cope** | can | parents | | | | | | vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **keep** | can | parents *not said here* | parents *= parent* | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **not** **want** | present · passive | | the child | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes.lesson:11`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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