Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 13
A silly impossible add-on like "Yeah, sure, and a pony too" means "no".
Who acts: silly impossible add on · What happens: mean
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 (silly impossible add on), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 on | det |
| 2 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 on | amod |
| 3 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 on | amod |
| 4 | add | add | NOUN | _ | 6 on | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 on | punct |
| 6 | on | on | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 pony | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 pony | punct |
| 9 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 15 pony | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Yeah | punct |
| 11 | sure | sure | INTJ | _ | 15 pony | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pony | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pony | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pony | det |
| 15 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 on | nmod |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 pony | advmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 pony | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 no | punct |
| 20 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 means | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 no | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a silly impossible add on like a pony | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=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:13.
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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