Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 11
A parody copies the shape and rhythm of a well-known poem or song but changes the words to make it funny.
Who acts: parody · What happens: copy, know, change, make · To what, where: shape, words, word
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» 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 (parody), 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 | 2 parody | det |
| 2 | parody | parody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 copies | nsubj |
| 3 | copies | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shape | det |
| 5 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 copies | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rhythm | cc |
| 7 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shape | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 poem | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 poem | det |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 known | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 poem | amod |
| 13 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shape | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 song | cc |
| 15 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poem | conj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 changes | cc |
| 17 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 copies | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 words | det |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 changes | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 changes | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 make | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 copies | 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 | copy | present | a parody | the shape of a known poem or song and rhythm | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | change | present | a parody not said here | the words | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | a parody not said here | word | funny property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:11.
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 ×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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