Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 7
To spot sarcasm, check whether the words fit the situation and the tone; if they don't fit, it may be sarcasm.
Who acts: words, Tone · What happens: spot, check, fit, not fit, be · To what, where: sarcasm, situation
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 (words, 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 spot | mark |
| 2 | spot | spot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sarcasm | sarcasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spot | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 check | punct |
| 5 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 spot | conj |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 fit | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fit | nsubj |
| 9 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 check | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 situation | det |
| 11 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fit | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tone | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tone | det |
| 14 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 situation | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fit | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 fit | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fit | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fit | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fit | advmod |
| 20 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sarcasm | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sarcasm | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sarcasm | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 sarcasm | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sarcasm | cop |
| 25 | sarcasm | sarcasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spot | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spot | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | to-infinitive | sarcasm | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sarcasm=Destination | |||||
| 2 | check | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fit | present | the words | the situation and the tone | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not fit a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | words = word | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | may | Tone | sarcasm | 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:7.
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): 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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