--- title: "It grew on me" means "I started to like it", and in the beard joke… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics description: "It grew on me" means "I started to like it", and in the beard joke it also means the hair literally grew. Who acts: joke, I, it, hair. 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 every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Puns and jokes that need a pun](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/) / 6 # Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 6 "It grew on me" means "I started to like it", and in the beard joke it also means the hair literally grew. **Who acts:** joke, I, it, hair · **What happens:** grow, mean, start, like · **To what, where:** joke, beard joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (joke, I, it, hair), 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:6 # text = "It grew on me" means "I started to like it", and in the beard joke it also means the hair literally grew. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 also also ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 literally literally ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** *in a quote* | past | joke | | | | | on me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on i=Location | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **start** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **like** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | joke | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | it | | | the beard joke | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **grow** | past | the hair | | | | | literally *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:6`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×5, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/5/) - next →: [Puns and jokes that need a pun, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/)