Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 6

Sarcasm means saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock something or show annoyance; tone is the feeling in your voice.

Who acts: Sarcasm, you, tone · What happens: mean, say, mock, show, be · To what, where: opposite, something, annoyance, feeling, 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, you, tone), 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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 opposite	det
5	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 opposite	nmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 mean	nsubj
9	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mock	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 mock	mark
12	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 mock	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 show	cc
15	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 mock	conj
16	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 show	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 feeling	punct
18	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feeling	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 feeling	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 feeling	det
21	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 voice	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 voice	nmod:poss
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feeling	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	Sarcasm			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	Sarcasm not said here	the opposite		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic
3	mean	present	you			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	mock	to-infinitive	Sarcasm not said here	something		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
5	show	infinitive	Sarcasm not said here	annoyance		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent annoyance=Recipient
6	is a	present	tone	the feeling	your voice	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:6.

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. 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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