Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 16

A dad joke is a simple, corny pun, like "I'm afraid for the calendar, its days are numbered"; part of the fun is that it's so bad.

Who acts: dad joke, I, joke · What happens: be, number · To what, where: simple corny pun, days · 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 (dad joke, I, joke), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 joke	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 joke	compound
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pun	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pun	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pun	det
6	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pun	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 simple	punct
8	corny	corny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pun	amod
9	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 afraid	mark
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 afraid	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 afraid	cop
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pun	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 calendar	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 calendar	det
18	calendar	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 afraid	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 calendar	punct
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 days	nmod:poss
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 numbered	nsubj:pass
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 numbered	aux:pass
23	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 afraid	parataxis
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 part	punct
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pun	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 fun	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fun	det
29	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 part	nmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 bad	cop
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 bad	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bad	nsubj
33	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 bad	cop
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 bad	advmod
35	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 part	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pun	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a dad joke	a simple corny pun		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	I		for the calendar; afraid property	tree rules
3	number in a quote	present · passive		joke's days		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	present	joke		bad property	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:16.

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, R7-rel-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.

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