--- title: Sometimes she does, because the washing machine has been broken for… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes she does, because the washing machine has been broken for a month and there's no money to fix it. Who acts: Holly, money. 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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 (Holly, money), 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:27 # text = Sometimes she does, because the washing machine has been broken for a month and there's no money to fix it. # 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): no change 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Holly | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **break** | present · perfect · passive | | the washing machine | | | month | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **be** | present | no money | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fix** | to-infinitive | no money *not said here* | money | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:27`. **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): no change. **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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