--- title: Adoptive parents are real parents; a calm, proud answer can stop a c… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: Adoptive parents are real parents; a calm, proud answer can stop a cruel comment. Who acts: Adoptive parents, calm proud answer. 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 ev --- [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/47/) [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/) / 47 # «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 47 Adoptive parents are real parents; a calm, proud answer can stop a cruel comment. **Who acts:** Adoptive parents, calm proud answer · **What happens:** be, stop · **To what, where:** real parents, cruel comment 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 (Adoptive parents, calm proud answer), 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:47 # text = Adoptive parents are real parents; a calm, proud answer can stop a cruel comment. # 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 Adoptive adoptive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 comment comment NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Adoptive parents | real parents | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** | can | a calm proud answer | a cruel comment | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality comment=Eventuality | 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:47`. **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/). - ← previous: [«Where's your dad?»: questions and cru…, 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/46/) - next →: [«Where's your dad?»: questions and cru…, 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/48/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/)