Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 12

"Impossible to put down" usually means very exciting to read; in the anti-gravity joke it also means the book floats away.

Who acts: Impossible, it, book · What happens: put down, mean, read, float away · To what, where: anti-gravity joke · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Impossible, it, book), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Impossible	punct
2	Impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 put	mark
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Impossible	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Impossible	punct
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 means	advmod
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 exciting	advmod
10	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 read	mark
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 exciting	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 means	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 joke	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 joke	det
16	anti-gravity	anti-gravity	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 joke	amod
17	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 means	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 means	nsubj
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 means	advmod
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 book	det
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 floats	nsubj
23	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 means	ccomp
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 floats	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	put down in a quote	to-infinitive	Impossible not said here			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	Impossible		exciting, usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	read	to-infinitive	Impossible not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present	it	the anti-gravity joke		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	float away	present	the book		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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