Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 15

A flat, bored voice with excited words is a sign of sarcasm; some people find sarcasm harder to read, so explain kindly if they miss it.

Who acts: flat bored voice, people · What happens: be, find, read, explain, miss · To what, where: sign, sarcasm, voice

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 (flat bored voice, people), 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	5 voice	det
2	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 flat	punct
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sign	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 words	case
7	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 voice	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sign	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sign	det
11	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sarcasm	case
13	sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sign	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 find	nsubj
17	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sign	parataxis
18	sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
19	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 find	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 read	mark
21	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 harder	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 explain	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 explain	advmod
24	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 sign	parataxis
25	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	24 explain	advmod
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 miss	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 miss	nsubj
28	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 explain	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 miss	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sign	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a flat bored voice with excited words	a sign	of sarcasm	tree rules
2	find	present	some people	sarcasm	hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sarcasm=Topic
3	read	to-infinitive	some people not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	explain speech: assert	infinitive			kindly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	miss a condition, not said to happen	present	people	voice		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:15.

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): R7-rel-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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