--- title: Jokes and famous riddles come easily too, but they are often the old… — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot · tree and pragmatics description: Jokes and famous riddles come easily too, but they are often the oldest ones, like the scarecrow "outstanding in his field", because those appear most often in the text it learned from. Who acts: Jokes, those, text. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jokes, those, text), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:004-stories-jokes-and-riddles.lesson:1 # text = Jokes and famous riddles come easily too, but they are often the oldest ones, like the scarecrow "outstanding in his field", because those appear most often in the text it learned from. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 004-stories-jokes-and-riddles.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 riddles riddle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 easily easily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 7 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 oldest old ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 outstanding outstanding ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 29 appear appear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 30 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 31 advmod _ _ 31 often often ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 36 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Jokes and famous riddles | | | | | easily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Jokes *= joke* | the oldest ones | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **appear** | present | those | | | the text | | often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in text=Location | | 4 | **learn** | past | text | the text *not said here* | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:ai:004-stories-jokes-and-riddles.lesson:1`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sounding right and being right, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/18/) - next →: [Stories, jokes and riddles with a chat…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/)