--- title: To get a pun, hunt for the word with two meanings or two words that… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics description: To get a pun, hunt for the word with two meanings or two words that sound alike: "seven eight nine" sounds like "seven ate nine". Who acts: two words, seven. 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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 (two words, seven), 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:2 # text = To get a pun, hunt for the word with two meanings or two words that sound alike: "seven eight nine" sounds like "seven ate nine". # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 hunt hunt VERB NN Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 21 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nsubj _ _ 22 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 23 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 25 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 like like SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nsubj _ _ 29 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obj _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | to-infinitive | | a pun | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pun=Stimulus | | 2 | **hunt** | | | | | | | for the word with two meanings or two words | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for word=Theme | | 3 | **sound** | present | two words | | | | | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **sound** | present | seven | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | seven | nine | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nine=Patient | 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:2`. **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, R7-rel-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, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/0/) - next →: [Puns and jokes that need a pun, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/)