--- title: "Two tired" in the bicycle joke sounds like "too tired", and a bike… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics description: "Two tired" in the bicycle joke sounds like "too tired", and a bike has two tyres (spelled "tires" in America). Who acts: Two tired, bike, two tyres. 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 --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 7 "Two tired" in the bicycle joke sounds like "too tired", and a bike has two tyres (spelled "tires" in America). **Who acts:** Two tired, bike, two tyres · **What happens:** sound, have, spell · **To what, where:** two tyres, tires, America 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 (Two tired, bike, two tyres), 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:7 # text = "Two tired" in the bicycle joke sounds like "too tired", and a bike has two tyres (spelled "tires" in America). # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:dislocated 3 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 bicycle bicycle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 10 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 tires tire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | present | Two tired | | | | | like tired | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | present | a bike | two tyres | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient | | 3 | **spell** | participle | two tyres *not said here* | tires | | America | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent tire=Theme in america=Manner | 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:7`. **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 ×3, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/6/) - next →: [Puns and jokes that need a pun, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/28-puns-and-jokes-that-need-a-pun/)