--- title: A pun is a joke that uses a word or sound with two meanings at once,… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics description: A pun is a joke that uses a word or sound with two meanings at once, so your brain flips between them and the flip is what makes you laugh (or groan). Who acts: pun, joke, brain, flip. 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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 (pun, joke, brain, flip), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:028-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun.lesson:0 # text = A pun is a joke that uses a word or sound with two meanings at once, so your brain flips between them and the flip is what makes you laugh (or groan). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 028-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 flips flip VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 between between ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 flip flip NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 nsubj _ _ 29 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=31:cc 34 groan groan VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 34 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a pun | a joke | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | present | a joke | a word or sound | | | | with two meanings | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 3 | **flip** | present | your brain | | | | | between meanings *= meaning* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent between they=Destination | | 4 | **is a** | present | the flip | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **laugh** | infinitive | you | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **groan** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:language:028-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/14/) - next →: [Puns and jokes that need a pun, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/)