Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 4
In texts there is no voice and no face, so sarcasm is easy to misread; that is why people add emoji or tone tags like "/s" for sarcastic and "/j" for joking.
Who acts: voice, sarcasm, that, people · What happens: be, misread, add, joke · To what, where: texts, emoji
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 (voice, sarcasm, that, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 texts | case |
| 2 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 is | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 voice | det |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 face | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 face | det |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 voice | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 easy | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 easy | advmod |
| 12 | sarcasm | sarcasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 easy | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 easy | cop |
| 14 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 is | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 misread | mark |
| 16 | misread | misread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 easy | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 why | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 why | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 why | cop |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 is | parataxis |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 add | nsubj |
| 22 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 why | advcl:relcl |
| 23 | emoji | emoji | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 add | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 tone | cc |
| 25 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 emoji | conj |
| 26 | tags | tag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 add | obj |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 s | case |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 s | punct |
| 29 | / | / | SYM | _ | 30 s | compound |
| 30 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tags | nmod |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 s | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 sarcastic | case |
| 33 | sarcastic | sarcastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 s | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 j | cc |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 j | punct |
| 36 | / | / | SYM | _ | 37 j | compound |
| 37 | j | j | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sarcastic | conj |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 j | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 40 joking | mark |
| 40 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 add | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | no voice and no face | texts; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in text=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | sarcasm | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | misread | to-infinitive | sarcasm not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | present | people | emoji or tone | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | joke speech: other | gerund | people not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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:4.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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