--- title: You don't owe anyone an answer about your family; «None of your busi… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: You don't owe anyone an answer about your family; «None of your business» or «Dunno» is allowed, and keeping something private isn't lying. Who acts: You, keeping. 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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 (You, keeping), 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:49 # text = You don't owe anyone an answer about your family; «None of your business» or «Dunno» is allowed, and keeping something private isn't lying. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 owe owe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 None none PRON NN PronType=Neg 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 Dunno Dunno PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 csubj _ _ 27 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound 28 private private NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **owe** | present · do-support | You | a answer | anyone | | | about your family | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Goal answer=Theme | | 2 | **allow** | present · passive | | None | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | | 3 | **keep** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent something=Theme private=Attribute | | 4 | **not** **lie** | present · progressive | keeping | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:49`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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