Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 6

"It grew on me" means "I started to like it", and in the beard joke it also means the hair literally grew.

Who acts: joke, I, it, hair · What happens: grow, mean, start, like · To what, where: joke, beard joke · 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 (joke, I, it, hair), 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	_	3 grew	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 means	ccomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 grew	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 started	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 started	nsubj
10	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 means	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 like	mark
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 started	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 started	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 means	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 joke	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 joke	det
19	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 joke	compound
20	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 means	obl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 means	nsubj
22	also	also	ADV	_	23 means	advmod
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hair	det
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grew	nsubj
26	literally	literally	ADV	_	27 grew	advmod
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 means	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	past	joke			on me	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Location
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	start in a quote	past	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	like in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	joke			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	mean	present	it		the beard joke		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	grow	past	the hair			literally property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:6.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, 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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