Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 10

In Scotland "Aye, right!" usually means "I don't believe you", even though "aye" means yes and "right" means correct.

Who acts: Sarcasm, aye, right · What happens: mean, not believe · To what, where: Scotland, you · 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, aye, right), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Scotland	case
2	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 means	obl
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Scotland	punct
4	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	2 Scotland	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Aye	punct
6	right	right	INTJ	_	4 Aye	discourse
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Aye	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Scotland	punct
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 means	advmod
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 believe	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 believe	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 believe	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 believe	advmod
15	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 believe	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 believe	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
19	even	even	ADV	_	24 means	advmod
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 means	mark
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 aye	punct
22	aye	aye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 means	nsubj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 aye	punct
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	advcl
25	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	30 means	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 means	cc
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 right	punct
28	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 means	nsubj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 right	punct
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 means	conj
31	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 means	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present			Scotland	usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not believe in a quote	present · do-support	Sarcasm	you			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	mean	present	aye				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present	right			correct property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=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:10.

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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