--- title: He tells his teacher the next day, and the school calls a charity th… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: He tells his teacher the next day, and the school calls a charity that helps kids with a parent in prison. Who acts: Jamal, school, charity. 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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 (Jamal, school, charity), 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:15 # text = He tells his teacher the next day, and the school calls a charity that helps kids with a parent 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 ×2 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:unmarked 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 charity charity NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Jamal | | Jamal's teacher | | day | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 2 | **call** | present | the school | a charity | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent charity=Recipient | | 3 | **help** | present | a charity | | kids | | | with a parent in prison | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent kid=Beneficiary with parent=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:15`. **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. 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