Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 0

A pun is a joke that uses a word or sound with two meanings at once, so your brain flips between them and the flip is what makes you laugh (or groan).

Who acts: pun, joke, brain, flip, you · What happens: be, use, flip, make, laugh, groan · To what, where: joke, word

This is a sentence of the lesson «Puns and jokes that need a pun» of the language 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 (pun, joke, brain, flip), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pun	det
2	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joke	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 uses	nsubj
7	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uses	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 sound	cc
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 word	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 meanings	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 meanings	nummod
14	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 word	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 uses	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flips	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 flips	advmod
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brain	nmod:poss
20	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flips	nsubj
21	flips	flip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 uses	conj
22	between	between	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flips	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flips	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 flip	det
26	flip	flip	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 what	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 what	cop
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 makes	nsubj
29	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 flips	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 laugh	nsubj
31	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 makes	xcomp
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 groan	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 groan	cc
34	groan	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 laugh	conj
35	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 groan	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 joke	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a pun	a joke		tree rules
2	use	present	a joke	a word or sound	with two meanings	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	flip	present	your brain		between meanings = meaning	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent between they=Destination
4	is a	present	the flip			tree rules
5	make	present				tree rules
6	laugh	infinitive	you			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	groan	infinitive	you not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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:language:028-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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