Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 14
Because seven eight nine" works because "eight" and "ate" are homophones.
Who acts: seven eight nine, eight · What happens: work, be · To what, where: homophones
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 (seven eight nine, eight), 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 nine | case |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 nine | compound |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 nine | compound |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 works | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nine | punct |
| 6 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 16 homophones | mark |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 eight | punct |
| 9 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 homophones | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 eight | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ate | cc |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 13 | ate | ate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eight | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 homophones | cop |
| 16 | homophones | homophone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 works | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work in a quote | present | seven eight nine | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | eight and ate | homophones | tree rules |
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:14.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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