Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 23
Not every joke lands, and that is okay; humour depends on the moment and the people.
Who acts: that, humour · What happens: be, depend
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» 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 (that, humour), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 lands | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 lands | det |
| 3 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lands | compound |
| 4 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 okay | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 okay | cc |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 okay | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 okay | cop |
| 9 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lands | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 depends | punct |
| 11 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 depends | nsubj |
| 12 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 okay | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 depends | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 people | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 moment | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lands | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | okay property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | depend | present | humour | moment | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: 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:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:23.
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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