--- title: Did he do a runner?» («do a runner» = run off, leave without a word). — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: Did he do a runner?» («do a runner» = run off, leave without a word). Who acts: boy. 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/3/) [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/) / 3 # «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 3 Did he do a runner?» («do a runner» = run off, leave without a word). **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** do, run off, leave · **To what, where:** runner · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (boy), 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:3 # text = Did he do a runner?» («do a runner» = run off, leave without a word). # 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 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 14 = = SYM SYM _ 15 punct _ _ 15 run run VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 19 without without ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 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** | past · do-support | boy | a runner | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent runner=Eventuality | | 2 | **do** | infinitive | boy *not said here* | a runner | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **run off** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | without a word | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3`. **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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