--- title: «Do a runner» means run off, «L» means a loss, «jailbird» is an old… — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes · tree and pragmatics description: «Do a runner» means run off, «L» means a loss, «jailbird» is an old word for a prisoner, «bruh» means bro, «mardy» means sulky, «steaming» is Scots slang for drunk, and «mortified» means terribly embarrassed. Who acts: Do, L. 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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 (Do, L), 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:55 # text = «Do a runner» means run off, «L» means a loss, «jailbird» is an old word for a prisoner, «bruh» means bro, «mardy» means sulky, «steaming» is Scots slang for drunk, and «mortified» means terribly embarrassed. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 Do Do PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 L l X GW _ 13 nsubj _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 jailbird jailbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 prisoner prisoner NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 29 bruh bruh INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 32 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 35 mardy mardy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 38 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:xcomp 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 « « PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 steaming steam VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 conj _ _ 42 » » PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 Scots Scot PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 45 compound _ _ 45 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 drunk drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 « « PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ _ 51 mortified mortify VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 52 » » PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 53 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 conj _ _ 54 terribly terribly ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 55 embarrassed embarrassed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=53:obj 56 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Do | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **run off** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | L | a loss and jailbird » | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a old word | | | | for a prisoner | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | | bro | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=Topic | | 6 | **mardy** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Scots slang for drunk | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **mean** | present | | sulky | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sulky=Topic | | 8 | **steam** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **is a** | present | | Scots | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **mortify** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **mean** | present | | | | | | embarrassed *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:55`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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