--- title: It's not his fault, and he's not alone: he can tell a teacher, or ca… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: It's not his fault, and he's not alone: he can tell a teacher, or call Childline for free on 0800 1111. Who acts: money, Jay. 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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 (money, Jay), 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:38 # text = It's not his fault, and he's not alone: he can tell a teacher, or call Childline for free on 0800 1111. # 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 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 Childline Childline PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 0800 0800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 26 1111 1111 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 list _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | money | Jay's fault | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Jay | | | | | alone *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | Jay | | a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 4 | **call** | infinitive | Jay *not said here* | Childline | | 0800 | | for free | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent childline=Theme for free=Beneficiary | 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:38`. **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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