Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 1
The family steps out for the beach, the sky opens, and Dad says flatly "Oh, great.
Who acts: family, sky, Dad · What happens: step out, open, say · 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 (family, sky, Dad), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 steps | nsubj |
| 3 | steps | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 opens | conj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 steps | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 beach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beach | det |
| 7 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 steps | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opens | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opens | nsubj |
| 11 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 says | cc |
| 14 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 opens | conj |
| 16 | flatly | flatly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 says | advmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 great | punct |
| 18 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 20 great | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Oh | punct |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 says | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 steps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step out | present | the family | for the beach | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | present | the sky | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Dad | flatly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:1.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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