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title: Because seven eight nine" works because "eight" and "ate" are homoph… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics
description: Because seven eight nine" works because "eight" and "ate" are homophones. Who acts: seven eight nine, eight. 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 every clause.
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# Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 14

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Because seven eight nine" works because "eight" and "ate" are homophones.

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**Who acts:** seven eight nine, eight · **What happens:** work, be · **To what, where:** homophones

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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 (seven eight nine, eight), 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:14
# text = Because seven eight nine" works because "eight" and "ate" are homophones.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
3	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:list
4	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	16	mark	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ate	ate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	homophones	homophone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **work** *in a quote* | present | seven eight nine |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | eight and ate | homophones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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