Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 2

To get a pun, hunt for the word with two meanings or two words that sound alike: "seven eight nine" sounds like "seven ate nine".

Who acts: two words, seven · What happens: get, hunt, sound, eat · To what, where: pun, nine

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 (two words, seven), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pun	det
4	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hunt	punct
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 get	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 word	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunt	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 meanings	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 meanings	nummod
12	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 word	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 words	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 words	nummod
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 meanings	conj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sound	nsubj
17	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 words	acl:relcl
18	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sound	xcomp
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 sounds	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 sounds	punct
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sounds	nsubj
22	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 seven	flat
23	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 seven	flat
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 seven	punct
25	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 get	conj
26	like	like	SCONJ	_	29 ate	mark
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 ate	punct
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 ate	nsubj
29	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sounds	advcl
30	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 ate	obj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 ate	punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		a pun		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pun=Stimulus
2	hunt				for the word with two meanings or two words	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for word=Theme
3	sound	present	two words		alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	sound	present	seven			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	eat in a quote	past	seven	nine		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nine=Patient

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:2.

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, R7-rel-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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