--- title: Minnie, who is adopted, gets told, «Your real mum gave you away.» Sh… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: Minnie, who is adopted, gets told, «Your real mum gave you away.» She doesn't even blink: «My real mum is at home making my tea.» A kid sneers at Jamal, «Your dad's a jailbird!» (an old word for someone in prison). Who acts: real mum, mum, kid, dad. 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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 (real mum, mum, kid, dad), 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:13 # text = Minnie, who is adopted, gets told, «Your real mum gave you away.» She doesn't even blink: «My real mum is at home making my tea.» A kid sneers at Jamal, «Your dad's a jailbird!» (an old word for someone in prison). # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5 1 Minnie Minnie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 11 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 19 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 blink blink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp 24 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 26 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 32 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 37 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:det 38 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:compound 39 sneers sneer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 40 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Jamal Jamal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 « « PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 44 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 46 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 jailbird jailbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:parataxis 49 ! ! PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ _ 50 » » PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 51 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 54 punct _ _ 52 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 appos _ _ 55 for for ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 54 nmod _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ _ 59 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 54 punct _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **adopt** | present · passive | | Minnie | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | Minnie | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **give away** *in a quote* | past | Your real mum | | you | | | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **not** **blink** | present · do-support | mum | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | My real mum | | | home | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | My real mum *not said here* | my tea | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tea=Product | | 7 | **sneer** | present | a kid | | | Jamal | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Your dad | a jailbird | | | | | tree rules | 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:13`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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