--- title: Some things are private, and keeping them private isn't lying to any… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: Some things are private, and keeping them private isn't lying to anyone. Who acts: things, keeping. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [«Where's your dad?»: questions and cru…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/) / 24 # «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 24 Some things are private, and keeping them private isn't lying to anyone. **Who acts:** things, keeping · **What happens:** be, keep, not lie · **To what, where:** things 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 (things, keeping), 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:24 # text = Some things are private, and keeping them private isn't lying to anyone. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some things | | | | | private *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | | things *= thing* | | | | private *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **not** **lie** | present · progressive | keeping | | | | | to anyone | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:24`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [«Where's your dad?»: questions and cru…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/23/) - next →: [«Where's your dad?»: questions and cru…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/)