Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 12
Using a child's full name and a sharp voice shows that a parent is serious or cross.
Who acts: Using, parent, child · What happens: use, show, be, name · To what, where: full name · 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 (Using, parent, child), 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 | Using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 shows | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 child | case |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 name | amod |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Using | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 voice | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | conj |
| 11 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 serious | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 parent | det |
| 14 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 serious | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 serious | cop |
| 16 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shows | ccomp |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 cross | cc |
| 18 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 serious | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | gerund | a child's full name and a sharp voice | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||||
| 2 | show | present | Using | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a parent | serious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | a parent not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | name | a child | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:12.
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. 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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