Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 9

Sarcasm says the opposite of what is meant, often in a flat or annoyed voice: "Oh, brilliant" about rain means fed up.

Who acts: Sarcasm, brilliant · What happens: say, mean, feed up · To what, where: opposite · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» of the english 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 (Sarcasm, brilliant), 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	Sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 opposite	det
4	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 opposite	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meant	aux:pass
8	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 often	punct
10	often	often	ADV	_	2 says	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	16 voice	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 voice	det
13	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voice	amod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 annoyed	cc
15	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flat	conj
16	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 often	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 brilliant	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 brilliant	punct
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	21 brilliant	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Oh	punct
21	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 means	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 brilliant	punct
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 rain	case
24	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 brilliant	obl
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
26	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 means	ccomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 fed	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Sarcasm	the opposite	tree rules
2	mean	present · passive			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»
3	mean	present	brilliant		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	feed up	participle			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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, 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:english:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.lesson:9.

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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