Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 8

A sarcastic "Thanks a LOT" means "I'm annoyed with you"; saying sorry works better than replying "You're welcome!".

Who acts: LOT, Sarcasm, You · What happens: mean, be, say, work, reply · To what, where: sorry · 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 (LOT, Sarcasm, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Thanks	det
2	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Thanks	amod
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Thanks	punct
4	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 LOT	det
6	LOT	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 LOT	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Thanks	parataxis
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 annoyed	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 annoyed	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 annoyed	cop
12	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 means	ccomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 annoyed	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 annoyed	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
17	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 works	nsubj
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 saying	obj
19	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	conj
20	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 works	advmod
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 replying	mark
22	replying	reply	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 works	advcl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 welcome	punct
24	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 welcome	nsubj
25	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 welcome	cop
26	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 replying	ccomp
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 welcome	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 welcome	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a LOT			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Sarcasm		with you; annoyed property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund		sorry		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic
4	work	present			well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	reply speech: express	gerund				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	You		welcome property	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:8.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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