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title: A kid says to Elijah, «That's weird, you can't have two dads.» «Well… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: A kid says to Elijah, «That's weird, you can't have two dads.» «Well, I do. Who acts: kid, That, Elijah. 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 30

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A kid says to Elijah, «That's weird, you can't have two dads.» «Well, I do.

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**Who acts:** kid, That, Elijah · **What happens:** say, be, not have, do · **To what, where:** Elijah, two dads · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (kid, That, Elijah), 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:30
# text = A kid says to Elijah, «That's weird, you can't have two dads.» «Well, I do.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	dads	dad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a kid |  | Elijah |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to elijah=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | weird *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | can | Elijah | two dads |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Patient |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | a kid *= kid* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:30`.

**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): R7-rel-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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