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Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side, sentence 9

Sarcasm says the opposite of what is meant, usually to tease or complain: «Oh brilliant, I LOVE standing in the rain» means «I hate this».

Who acts: Sarcasm, gran · What happens: say, mean, tease, complain, love, stand · To what, where: opposite, rain, this · 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 (Sarcasm, gran), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjdetobjcasenmodaux:passacl:relclpunctadvmodmarkconjccconjpunctpunctdiscourseconjpunctnsubjccompxcompcasedetoblpunctparataxispunctnsubjccompobjpunctpunctrootSarcasmNOUNsaysVERBtheDEToppositeNOUNofADPwhatPRONisAUXmeantVERB,PUNCTusuallyADVtoPARTteaseVERBorCCONJcomplainVERB:PUNCT«PUNCTOhINTJbrilliantADJ,PUNCTIPRONLOVEVERBstandingVERBinADPtheDETrainNOUN»PUNCTmeansVERB«PUNCTIPRONhateVERBthisPRON»PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SarcasmsarcasmNOUNNumber=Sing2 saysnsubj
2sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 oppositedet
4oppositeoppositeNOUNNumber=Sing2 saysobj
5ofofADP_6 whatcase
6whatwhatPRONPronType=Rel4 oppositenmod
7isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 meantaux:pass
8meantmeanVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 whatacl:relcl
9,,PUNCT_12 teasepunct
10usuallyusuallyADV_12 teaseadvmod
11totoPART_12 teasemark
12teaseteaseVERBVerbForm=Inf2 saysconj
13ororCCONJ_14 complaincc
14complaincomplainVERBVerbForm=Inf12 teaseconj
15::PUNCT_12 teasepunct
16««PUNCT_18 brilliantpunct
17OhohINTJ_18 brilliantdiscourse
18brilliantbrilliantADJDegree=Pos12 teaseconj
19,,PUNCT_21 LOVEpunct
20IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 LOVEnsubj
21LOVEloveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 saysccomp
22standingstandVERBVerbForm=Ger21 LOVExcomp
23ininADP_25 raincase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 raindet
25rainrainNOUNNumber=Sing22 standingobl
26»»PUNCT_27 meanspunct
27meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 saysparataxis
28««PUNCT_30 hatepunct
29IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs30 hatensubj
30hatehateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 meansccomp
31thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem30 hateobj
32»»PUNCT_30 hatepunct
33..PUNCT_2 sayspunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentSarcasmthe oppositetree rules
2meanpresent · passivevn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»
3teaseto-infinitiveSarcasm not said hereusually propertyvn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4complain speech: otherinfinitiveSarcasm not said herevn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5love in a quotepresentSarcasmvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6stand not said to happen, in a quotegerundSarcasm not said herethe rainvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rain=Location
7meanpresentvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8hate in a quotepresentthings's gran = granthisvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:9.

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 ×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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