--- title: Humour can stop small teasing, but if it keeps going or is about fam… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: Humour can stop small teasing, but if it keeps going or is about family, tell an adult. Who acts: Humour. 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 every clause. --- [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/54/) [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/) / 54 # «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes, sentence 54 Humour can stop small teasing, but if it keeps going or is about family, tell an adult. **Who acts:** Humour · **What happens:** stop, keep, go, be, tell · **To what, where:** small teasing, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Humour), 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:54 # text = Humour can stop small teasing, but if it keeps going or is about family, tell an adult. # 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 Humour humour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 teasing teasing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 11 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 xcomp _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | can | Humour | small teasing | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality teasing=Eventuality | | 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Humour | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | gerund | Humour *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | Humour *not said here* | | | | | about family | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Humour *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | 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:54`. **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. 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