Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 0

Sarcasm is saying the opposite of what you mean, usually to show you're annoyed or to tease; the words say one thing and the situation and voice say another.

Who acts: Sarcasm, you, words, situation · What happens: say, mean, show, be, tease · To what, where: opposite, one thing, another · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm and tone of voice» 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 (Sarcasm, you, words, situation), 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	Sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 opposite	det
5	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 opposite	nmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 mean	nsubj
9	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 show	punct
11	usually	usually	ADV	_	13 show	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 show	mark
13	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 annoyed	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 annoyed	cop
16	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 show	ccomp
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 tease	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tease	mark
19	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 annoyed	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 words	det
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	parataxis
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 thing	nummod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 say	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 say	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 situation	det
28	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 voice	cc
30	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 situation	conj
31	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 say	conj
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 say	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	Sarcasm	the opposite		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic
2	mean	present	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	show	to-infinitive	Sarcasm not said here		usually property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	you		annoyed property	tree rules
5	tease	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	present	the words	one thing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
7	say speech: assert	present	the situation and voice	another		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic

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:029-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice.lesson:0.

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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