Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 16
Sarcasm exists in many languages: in Ukrainian "Чудово!" (wonderful) said in a flat, tired voice is sarcastic too.
Who acts: Sarcasm · What happens: exist, say, be · To what, where: many languages, flat tired voice · 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), 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 | Sarcasm | sarcasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 exists | nsubj |
| 2 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 languages | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 languages | amod |
| 5 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 exists | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ukrainian | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Ukrainian | case |
| 8 | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 exists | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Чудово | punct |
| 10 | Чудово | Чудово | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ukrainian | flat |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Чудово | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Чудово | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 wonderful | punct |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 exists | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 wonderful | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 voice | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 voice | det |
| 19 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 voice | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flat | punct |
| 21 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 voice | amod |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sarcastic | obl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sarcastic | cop |
| 24 | sarcastic | sarcastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 sarcastic | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 exists | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | Sarcasm | many languages | in Ukrainian | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in language=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | a flat tired voice | sarcastic property | tree rules |
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:16.
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 ×5. 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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