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title: Your London cousin hears "Aye, right" from a Glasgow lad and thinks… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics
description: Your London cousin hears "Aye, right" from a Glasgow lad and thinks he believes the shark story. What's really meant? Test 2 · ★★ 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
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Sarcasm and tone of voice

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Your London cousin hears "Aye, right" from a Glasgow lad and thinks he believes the shark story. What's really meant?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** London cousin, cousin · **What happens:** hear, think, believe, mean · **To what, where:** right, shark story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your London cousin hears "Aye, right" from a Glasgow lad and thinks he believes the shark story.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t2:1
# text = Your London cousin hears "Aye, right" from a Glasgow lad and thinks he believes the shark story.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	believes	believe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Your London cousin | right |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Your London cousin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **believe** | present | cousin | the shark story |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's really meant?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t2:2
# text = What's really meant?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He doesn't believe it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t2:o1:1
# text = He doesn't believe it
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **believe** | present · do-support | He | it |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He totally believes it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t2:o2:1
# text = He totally believes it
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	believes	believe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | He | it |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He's scared of sharks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t2:o3:1
# text = He's scared of sharks
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | of sharks; scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He wants to go right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice:t2:o4:1
# text = He wants to go right
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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