Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 11

Teachers sometimes use sarcasm to tease gently, but it can hurt, and many teachers now avoid it with children.

Who acts: Teachers, right, many teachers · What happens: use, tease, hurt, avoid · To what, where: sarcasm, right

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 (Teachers, right, many teachers), 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	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 use	advmod
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tease	mark
6	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	advcl
7	gently	gently	ADV	_	6 tease	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hurt	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hurt	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hurt	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hurt	aux
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 avoid	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 avoid	cc
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 teachers	amod
16	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 avoid	nsubj
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 avoid	advmod
18	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 use	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 avoid	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 children	case
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 avoid	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Teachers	sarcasm		sometimes property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sarcasm=Patient
2	tease	to-infinitive	Teachers not said here			gently property	vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hurt	can	right				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
4	avoid	present	many teachers	right	now	with children	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

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:11.

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 ×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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