--- title: Kai's Aussie mate says "yeah, nah, we're not camping again." What do… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics description: Kai's Aussie mate says "yeah, nah, we're not camping again." What does "yeah, nah" mean here? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Sarcasm and tone of voice» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Sarcasm and tone of voice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★★ · Sarcasm and tone of voice Kai's Aussie mate says "yeah, nah, we're not camping again." What does "yeah, nah" mean here? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Aussie mate, we · **What happens:** say, not camp, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Sarcasm and tone of voice» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Kai's Aussie mate says "yeah, nah, we're not camping again." ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t10:1 # text = Kai's Aussie mate says "yeah, nah, we're not camping again." 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 Aussie Aussie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 nah nah INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 camping camp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kai's Aussie mate | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **camp** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we | | | | again | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* What does "yeah, nah" mean here? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t10:2 # text = What does "yeah, nah" mean here? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 nah nah INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | | | | here | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} No ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t10:o1:1 # text = No 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Definitely yes ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t10:o2:1 # text = Definitely yes 1 Definitely definitely ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 2 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 1 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Yes ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t10:o3:1 # text = Yes 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Maybe tomorrow ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t10:o4:1 # text = Maybe tomorrow 1 Maybe maybe ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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