--- title: "Impossible to put down" usually means very exciting to read; in the… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics description: "Impossible to put down" usually means very exciting to read; in the anti-gravity joke it also means the book floats away. Who acts: Impossible, it, book. 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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 (Impossible, it, book), 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:12 # text = "Impossible to put down" usually means very exciting to read; in the anti-gravity joke it also means the book floats away. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nsubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 anti-gravity anti-gravity ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 also also ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put down** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Impossible *not said here* | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Impossible | | | | | exciting, usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | Impossible *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | it | | | the anti-gravity joke | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **float away** | present | the book | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:language:028-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun.lesson:12`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Puns and jokes that need a pun, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/11/) - next →: [Puns and jokes that need a pun, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/)