Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 3

Sarcasm, like «Great weather!» in pouring rain, means the opposite of the words, shown by the tone, and the speaker expects you to understand.

Who acts: Sarcasm, speaker, you · What happens: mean, show, expect, understand · To what, where: opposite, words, you

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 (Sarcasm, speaker, you), 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	13 means	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weather	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 weather	case
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 weather	punct
5	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weather	amod
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sarcasm	nmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 weather	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 weather	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 rain	case
10	pouring	pouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rain	compound
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weather	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sarcasm	punct
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 opposite	det
15	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 words	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 words	det
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 opposite	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shown	punct
20	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 words	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 tone	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tone	det
23	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shown	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 expects	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 expects	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 speaker	det
27	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 expects	nsubj
28	expects	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 expects	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 understand	mark
31	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 expects	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Sarcasm like Great weather in pouring rain	the opposite of the words		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic
2	show	participle		the words not said here	by the tone	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	expect	present	the speaker	you		tree rules
4	understand not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:3.

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 ×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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