Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 7
"Two tired" in the bicycle joke sounds like "too tired", and a bike has two tyres (spelled "tires" in America).
Who acts: Two tired, bike, two tyres · What happens: sound, have, spell · To what, where: two tyres, tires, America
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 tired, bike, two tyres), 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 tired | punct |
| 2 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 tired | nummod |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 joke | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 joke | det |
| 7 | bicycle | bicycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joke | compound |
| 8 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sounds | nsubj |
| 9 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 tired | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 tired | advmod |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sounds | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 has | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bike | det |
| 18 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sounds | conj |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 tyres | nummod |
| 21 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 has | obj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 spelled | punct |
| 23 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 tyres | acl |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 tires | punct |
| 25 | tires | tire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spelled | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 tires | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 America | case |
| 28 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 spelled | obl |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 spelled | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | Two tired | like tired | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a bike | two tyres | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spell | participle | two tyres not said here | tires | America | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent tire=Theme in america=Manner |
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:7.
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 ×3, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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