Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 3
Tone is the feeling in your voice: a full name and a sharp "NOW!" can say "you're in trouble" louder than any words.
Who acts: Tone, you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: feeling, voice, trouble · 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 (Tone, you), 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 | Tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeling | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 feeling | det |
| 4 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 name | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | amod |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeling | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sharp | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sharp | det |
| 14 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | acl:relcl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 NOW | punct |
| 16 | NOW | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 sharp | advmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 NOW | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 NOW | punct |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 say | aux |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feeling | parataxis |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 trouble | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 trouble | nsubj |
| 23 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 trouble | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 trouble | case |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 louder | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 trouble | punct |
| 27 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 say | parataxis |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 words | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 words | det |
| 30 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 louder | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tone | the feeling | your voice | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | can | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | trouble | 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:3.
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 ×3. 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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