Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 10
In the knock-knock joke, "Lettuce in" sounds like "let us in".
Who acts: Lettuce · What happens: sound, let in · To what, where: knock joke, us
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 (Lettuce), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 joke | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 joke | det |
| 3 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knock | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 knock | punct |
| 5 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 joke | compound |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sounds | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 9 | Lettuce | lettuce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sounds | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Lettuce | compound:prt |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lettuce | punct |
| 12 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 15 let | mark |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 sounds | advcl |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 let | compound:prt |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | Lettuce | the knock joke | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joke=Location | ||||
| 2 | let in in a quote | infinitive | Lettuce not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
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:10.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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