--- title: A dad joke is a simple, corny pun, like "I'm afraid for the calendar… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics description: A dad joke is a simple, corny pun, like "I'm afraid for the calendar, its days are numbered"; part of the fun is that it's so bad. Who acts: dad joke, I, joke. 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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 (dad joke, I, joke), 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:16 # text = A dad joke is a simple, corny pun, like "I'm afraid for the calendar, its days are numbered"; part of the fun is that it's so bad. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 corny corny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 calendar calendar NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 numbered number VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a dad joke | a simple corny pun | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | for the calendar; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **number** *in a quote* | present · passive | | joke's days | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | joke | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | 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:16`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Puns and jokes that need a pun, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/15/) - next →: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/)