Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 8
"A fish with no eyes is a fsh": take away the i, which sounds like "eye", and "fish" becomes "fsh".
Who acts: fish, i · What happens: be, take away, sound, become · To what, where: fsh, i · 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 (fish, i), 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 | _ | 9 fsh | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fsh | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fish | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fsh | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fsh | det |
| 9 | fsh | fsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fsh | punct |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 fsh | parataxis |
| 13 | away | away | ADP | _ | 12 take | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 i | det |
| 15 | i | i | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sounds | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sounds | nsubj |
| 18 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 i | acl:relcl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 eye | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 eye | punct |
| 21 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | obl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 eye | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 becomes | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 becomes | cc |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 fish | punct |
| 26 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 becomes | nsubj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 fish | punct |
| 28 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sounds | conj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 fsh | punct |
| 30 | fsh | fsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 becomes | xcomp |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 fsh | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fsh | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a fish with no eyes | a fsh | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take away | infinitive | the i | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sound | present | the i | like eye | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | become | present | fish | fsh | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:8.
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): R8-pos-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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