Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 12
Joking about people with more power than you is called punching up.
What happens: joke, call, punch up · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics 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: 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 | Joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 people | case |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Joking | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 power | case |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 power | amod |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 power | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | aux:pass |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | punching | punch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 called | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 punching | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | gerund | about people with more power than you | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about people=Topic | |||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | punch up | gerund | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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