Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 11
Puns usually depend on sounds or double meanings in one language, so when translated the double meaning disappears.
Who acts: Puns, double meaning · What happens: depend, translate, disappear
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 (Puns, double meaning), 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 | Puns | pun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 depend | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 depend | advmod |
| 3 | depend | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sounds | case |
| 5 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 depend | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 meanings | cc |
| 7 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meanings | amod |
| 8 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sounds | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 language | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 language | nummod |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meanings | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 translated | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 translated | advmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 translated | advmod |
| 15 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 depend | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 meaning | det |
| 17 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 meaning | amod |
| 18 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 disappears | nsubj |
| 19 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 translated | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 depend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | Puns | on sounds or double meanings in one language; usually property | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | translate | participle | Puns not said here | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | disappear | present | the double meaning | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:11.
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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