Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 4
A pun that makes everyone groan has still worked; the groan is part of the fun, which is the whole secret of dad jokes.
Who acts: pun, everyone, groan, fun · What happens: make, groan, work, be · To what, where: everyone, part, whole secret
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 (pun, everyone, groan, fun), 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 | 2 pun | det |
| 2 | pun | pun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worked | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pun | acl:relcl |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | groan | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 worked | aux |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 worked | advmod |
| 9 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 part | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 groan | det |
| 12 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 part | cop |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worked | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fun | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fun | det |
| 17 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 secret | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 secret | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 secret | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 secret | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 secret | amod |
| 23 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fun | acl:relcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 jokes | case |
| 25 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 jokes | compound |
| 26 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 secret | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | a pun | everyone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | groan | infinitive | everyone not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | work | present · perfect | a pun | still | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the groan | part | of the fun | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | present | the fun | the whole secret | of dad jokes | 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:4.
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): 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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