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title: Children go into care because parents can't cope or can't keep them… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics
description: Children go into care because parents can't cope or can't keep them safe, not because the child isn't wanted. Who acts: Children, parents. 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 pragma
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# «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 46

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Children go into care because parents can't cope or can't keep them safe, not because the child isn't wanted.

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**Who acts:** Children, parents · **What happens:** go, not cope, not keep, not want · **To what, where:** care, children, child

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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 (Children, parents), 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:46
# text = Children go into care because parents can't cope or can't keep them safe, not because the child isn't wanted.
# 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	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	cope	cope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	wanted	want	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go** | present | Children |  |  | care |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into care=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **cope** | can | parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **keep** | can | parents *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **want** | present · passive |  | the child |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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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:46`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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