Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side, sentence 7
In a text there is no voice to help, so if you can't tell, just ask.
Who acts: voice, you · What happens: be, help, not tell, ask · To what, where: text · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» 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 (voice, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 text | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 text | det |
| 3 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 voice | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 tell | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 tell | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 tell | advmod |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ask | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ask | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 ask | advmod |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 is | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no voice | a text; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in text=Location | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | no voice not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | can | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.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): 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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