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title: "De-brie" sounds like "debris", the broken bits left after something… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics
description: "De-brie" sounds like "debris", the broken bits left after something breaks; brie is a soft French cheese. Who acts: De brie, broken bits, brie. 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 ev
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# Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 15

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"De-brie" sounds like "debris", the broken bits left after something breaks; brie is a soft French cheese.

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**Who acts:** De brie, broken bits, brie · **What happens:** sound, leave, be · **To what, where:** soft French cheese

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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 (De brie, broken bits, brie), 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:15
# text = "De-brie" sounds like "debris", the broken bits left after something breaks; brie is a soft French cheese.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
4	brie	brie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	debris	debris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	compound	_	_
18	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	brie	brie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **sound** | present | De brie |  |  |  |  | like debris | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the broken bits |  |  |  | after something breaks |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | brie | a soft French cheese |  |  |  |  | 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:15`.

**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 ×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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