Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 5

Sarcasm can sting, and some people (including many learners of English and some autistic people) find it harder to spot, so when it matters, say plainly what you mean.

Who acts: Sarcasm, people, it, you · What happens: sting, find, spot, matter, say, mean · To what, where: 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, people, it, 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	Sarcasm	sarcasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sting	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sting	aux
3	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 find	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 find	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 find	nsubj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 learners	punct
9	including	include	ADP	_	11 learners	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 learners	amod
11	learners	learner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 people	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 English	case
13	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 learners	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 people	cc
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 people	det
16	autistic	autistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 English	conj
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 learners	punct
19	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sting	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	obj
21	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 find	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 spot	mark
23	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 harder	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	30 say	advmod
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 matters	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 matters	nsubj
28	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 say	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 matters	punct
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 find	conj
31	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	30 say	advmod
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 mean	obj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 mean	nsubj
34	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 say	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sting	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sting	can	Sarcasm			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	find	present	some people include many learners of English and some autistic people	voice	hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	spot	to-infinitive	some people include many learners of English and some autistic people not said here			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
4	matter	present	it			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	some people include many learners of English and some autistic people not said here		plainly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	mean	present	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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:5.

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 ×2, 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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