Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 15
"De-brie" sounds like "debris", the broken bits left after something breaks; brie is a soft French cheese.
Who acts: De brie, broken bits, brie · What happens: sound, leave, be · To what, where: soft French cheese
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 (De brie, broken bits, brie), 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 | _ | 4 brie | punct |
| 2 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brie | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 brie | punct |
| 4 | brie | brie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sounds | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brie | punct |
| 6 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 debris | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 debris | punct |
| 9 | debris | debris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sounds | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 debris | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bits | det |
| 13 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bits | amod |
| 14 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sounds | conj |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 breaks | case |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 breaks | compound |
| 18 | breaks | break | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 left | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 cheese | punct |
| 20 | brie | brie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cheese | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 cheese | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cheese | det |
| 23 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cheese | amod |
| 24 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cheese | amod |
| 25 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sounds | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | De brie | like debris | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the broken bits | after something breaks | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | brie | a soft French cheese | 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:15.
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): R6-punct-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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