Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 21

Studio audiences are warmed up by a comedian and sometimes extra laughter is added later, so laughter does not prove a joke is funny.

Who acts: comedian, laughter, joke · What happens: warm up, add, not prove, be · To what, where: Studio audiences, extra laughter

This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» of the adult life 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 (comedian, laughter, joke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Studio	studio	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 audiences	compound
2	audiences	audience	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warmed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warmed	aux:pass
4	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 warmed	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 comedian	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 comedian	det
8	comedian	comedian	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warmed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 added	cc
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 added	advmod
11	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 laughter	amod
12	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 added	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 added	aux:pass
14	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 warmed	conj
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 added	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 prove	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 prove	advmod
18	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prove	nsubj
19	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 prove	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 prove	advmod
21	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 added	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 joke	det
23	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 funny	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 funny	cop
25	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 prove	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 warmed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	warm up	present · passive	a comedian	Studio audiences		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	add speech: assert	present · passive		extra laughter	late, sometimes property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	not prove	present · do-support	laughter			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	a joke		funny property	tree rules

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, 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:adult-life:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.lesson:21.

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): no change. 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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