Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 5

A pun is a joke using a word or phrase with two meanings, or two words that sound the same; a bad pun that makes people groan is called a groaner.

Who acts: pun, joke, two words, bad pun, people · What happens: be, use, sound, make, groan, call · To what, where: joke, word, same, people, bad pun · 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 (pun, joke, two words, bad pun), 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	5 joke	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 joke	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 using	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 phrase	cc
10	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 meanings	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 meanings	nummod
13	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 using	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 words	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 words	cc
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 words	nummod
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 word	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sound	nsubj
19	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 words	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 same	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sound	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 called	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pun	det
24	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pun	amod
25	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 called	nsubj:pass
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 makes	nsubj
27	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 pun	acl:relcl
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 makes	obj
29	groan	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 makes	xcomp
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 called	aux:pass
31	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 joke	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 groaner	det
33	groaner	groaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 called	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 joke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a pun	a joke		tree rules
2	use	gerund	a joke not said here	a word or phrase or two words	with two meanings	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	sound	present	two words	the same		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme
4	make	present	a bad pun	people		tree rules
5	groan	infinitive	people not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	call	present · passive		a bad pun		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:5.

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. 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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