--- title: Teasing about things a child can't help, like money or a broken wash… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: Teasing about things a child can't help, like money or a broken washing machine, is cruel; schools can help quietly. Who acts: child, schools. 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 pr --- [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/50/) [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/) / 50 # «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 50 Teasing about things a child can't help, like money or a broken washing machine, is cruel; schools can help quietly. **Who acts:** child, schools · **What happens:** tease, not help, break, be, help · **To what, where:** money 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 (child, schools), 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:50 # text = Teasing about things a child can't help, like money or a broken washing machine, is cruel; schools can help quietly. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 nsubj _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 washing washing NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 24 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | gerund | | | | | | about things | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **help** | can | a child | money or a broken washing machine | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Beneficiary | | 3 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | cruel *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **help** | can | schools | | | | | quietly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:50`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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