--- title: Sam and Jake have an inside joke: whenever anyone says «potato», the… — Sleepovers and inside jokes · tree and pragmatics description: Sam and Jake have an inside joke: whenever anyone says «potato», they both shout «PO-TAH-TO» like a posh butler. Who acts: Sam, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/6/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Sleepovers and inside jokes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/) / 6 # Sleepovers and inside jokes, sentence 6 Sam and Jake have an inside joke: whenever anyone says «potato», they both shout «PO-TAH-TO» like a posh butler. **Who acts:** Sam, anyone · **What happens:** have, say, shout · **To what, where:** inside joke, potato, PO · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» of the everyday 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 (Sam, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:6 # text = Sam and Jake have an inside joke: whenever anyone says «potato», they both shout «PO-TAH-TO» like a posh butler. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 inside inside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 10 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 potato potato NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 shout shout VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 PO po NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 TAH TAH PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 24 TO to PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 butler butler NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Sam and Jake | a inside joke | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | anyone | potato | | | | whenever *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent potato=Topic | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Sam | PO | | | | like a posh butler | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent po=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:everyday:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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: [Sleepovers and inside jokes, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/5/) - next →: [Sleepovers and inside jokes, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/)