Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 6

A pun is a joke built on a word with two meanings or on two words that sound alike, like «tale» (a story) and «tail» (the end of an animal).

Who acts: pun, two words · What happens: be, build, sound · To what, where: joke, 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 (pun, two words), 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 pun	det
2	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joke	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 joke	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 word	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 meanings	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 meanings	nummod
12	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 word	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 words	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 words	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 words	nummod
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 meanings	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sound	nsubj
18	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 words	acl:relcl
19	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sound	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tale	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 tale	case
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 tale	punct
23	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joke	conj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 tale	punct
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 story	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 story	det
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tale	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 story	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tail	cc
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 tail	punct
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tale	conj
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 tail	punct
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 end	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 end	det
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tail	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 animal	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 animal	det
38	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 end	nmod
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 end	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 joke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a pun	a joke and tale and tail			tree rules
2	build	participle		a joke and tale and tail not said here	a word with two meanings or two words		vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on word=Source
3	sound	present	two words			alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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