Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 19
Memes and comedy can spark curiosity, but you need to know the real story to understand the joke.
Who acts: Memes, you · What happens: spark, need, know, understand · To what, where: curiosity, real story, joke
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: who acts (Memes, 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 | Memes | meme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spark | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 comedy | cc |
| 3 | comedy | comedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Memes | conj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 spark | aux |
| 5 | spark | spark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spark | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 need | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 need | nsubj |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spark | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 need | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 story | amod |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 understand | mark |
| 17 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 story | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 joke | det |
| 19 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 understand | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spark | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spark | can | Memes and comedy | curiosity | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition curiosity=Patient | ||||
| 2 | need | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the real story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | understand | to-infinitive | you not said here | the joke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joke=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:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:19.
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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