--- title: A pun is a joke using a word or phrase with two meanings, or two wor… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics description: A pun is a joke using a word or phrase with two meanings, or two words that sound the same; a bad pun that makes people groan is called a groaner. Who acts: pun, joke, two words, bad pun. 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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 (pun, joke, two words, bad pun), 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:5 # text = A pun is a joke using a word or phrase with two meanings, or two words that sound the same; a bad pun that makes people groan is called a groaner. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 groan groan VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 groaner groaner NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 pun | a joke | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | gerund | a joke *not said here* | a word or phrase or two words | | | | with two meanings | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 3 | **sound** | present | two words | the same | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | a bad pun | people | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **groan** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **call** | present · passive | | a bad pun | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:5`. **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. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/4/) - next →: [Puns and jokes that need a pun, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/)