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title: Puns usually depend on sounds or double meanings in one language, so… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics
description: Puns usually depend on sounds or double meanings in one language, so when translated the double meaning disappears. Who acts: Puns, double meaning. A sentence of the lesson «Puns and jokes that need a pun» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 11

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Puns usually depend on sounds or double meanings in one language, so when translated the double meaning disappears.

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**Who acts:** Puns, double meaning · **What happens:** depend, translate, disappear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Puns and jokes that need a pun» of the language 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 (Puns, double meaning), 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:11
# text = Puns usually depend on sounds or double meanings in one language, so when translated the double meaning disappears.
# 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): no change
1	Puns	pun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	depend	depend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	meanings	meaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	disappears	disappear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present | Puns |  |  |  |  | on sounds or double meanings in one language; usually *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on sound=Theme |
| 2 | **translate** | participle | Puns *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **disappear** | present | the double meaning |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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