--- title: This is sarcasm: saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock someo… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: Th… · tree and pragmatics description: This is sarcasm: saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock someone. Who acts: This, sarcasm, you. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» of the books course of Mova's prim --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/) / 33 # The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»), sentence 33 This is sarcasm: saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock someone. **Who acts:** This, sarcasm, you · **What happens:** be, say, mean, mock · **To what, where:** sarcasm, opposite, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» of the books 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 (This, sarcasm, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:33 # text = This is sarcasm: saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock someone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 5 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nmod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 mock mock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | This | sarcasm | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | sarcasm *not said here* | the opposite | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | you | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mock** | to-infinitive | sarcasm *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=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. **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:books:070-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night.lesson:33`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. 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