--- title: Jokes do it too, but jokes can sting: "a face for radio" says someon… — Soft words for hard things: age and looks and we… · tree and pragmatics description: Jokes do it too, but jokes can sting: "a face for radio" says someone is ugly, because on radio nobody sees your face. Who acts: Jokes, face, someone, nobody. 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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, face, someone, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:2 # text = Jokes do it too, but jokes can sting: "a face for radio" says someone is ugly, because on radio nobody sees your face. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 009-age-looks-and-size.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 sting sting VERB VB _ 2 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 18 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Jokes | truth | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 2 | **sting** | can | jokes | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a face for radio | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | someone | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **see** | present | nobody | your face | | radio | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=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](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:euphemisms:009-age-looks-and-size.lesson:2`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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: [Soft words for hard things: age and lo…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/1/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: age and lo…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/)