--- title: A child whose parent drinks too much is not to blame; they can tell… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: A child whose parent drinks too much is not to blame; they can tell a teacher or call Childline for free on 0800 1111. Who acts: parent, child, children. 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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 (parent, child, children), 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:53 # text = A child whose parent drinks too much is not to blame; they 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obj _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 20 Childline Childline PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 0800 0800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 25 1111 1111 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 list _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | present | parent | much | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | | 2 | **be** | present | a child | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **blame** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | children *= child* | | a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 5 | **call** | infinitive | children *= child* *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:53`. **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, 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. 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