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title: A pun that makes everyone groan has still worked; the groan is part… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics
description: A pun that makes everyone groan has still worked; the groan is part of the fun, which is the whole secret of dad jokes. Who acts: pun, everyone, groan, fun. 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 prag
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# Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 4

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A pun that makes everyone groan has still worked; the groan is part of the fun, which is the whole secret of dad jokes.

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**Who acts:** pun, everyone, groan, fun · **What happens:** make, groan, work, be · **To what, where:** everyone, part, whole secret

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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 (pun, everyone, groan, fun), 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:4
# text = A pun that makes everyone groan has still worked; the groan is part of the fun, which is the whole secret of dad jokes.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pun	pun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	groan	groan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	groan	groan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **make** | present | a pun | everyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **groan** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | present · perfect | a pun |  |  |  | still |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the groan | part |  |  |  | of the fun | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the fun | the whole secret |  |  |  | of dad jokes | 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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**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): 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.

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