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title: Blunt questions aren't always meant to hurt, but you still don't owe… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: Blunt questions aren't always meant to hurt, but you still don't owe an answer. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 16

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Blunt questions aren't always meant to hurt, but you still don't owe an answer.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not mean, hurt, not owe · **To what, where:** Blunt questions, answer

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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 (you), 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:16
# text = Blunt questions aren't always meant to hurt, but you still don't owe an answer.
# 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	Blunt	blunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	owe	owe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **mean** | present · passive |  | Blunt questions |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **owe** | present · do-support | you | a answer |  |  | still |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |

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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:16`.

**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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