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title: "A fish with no eyes is a fsh": take away the i, which sounds like "… — Puns and jokes that need a pun · tree and pragmatics
description: "A fish with no eyes is a fsh": take away the i, which sounds like "eye", and "fish" becomes "fsh". Who acts: fish, i. 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 clause.
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# Puns and jokes that need a pun, sentence 8

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"A fish with no eyes is a fsh": take away the i, which sounds like "eye", and "fish" becomes "fsh".

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**Who acts:** fish, i · **What happens:** be, take away, sound, become · **To what, where:** fsh, i · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (fish, i), 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:8
# text = "A fish with no eyes is a fsh": take away the i, which sounds like "eye", and "fish" becomes "fsh".
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fsh	fsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	away	away	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	i	i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	fsh	fsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a fish with no eyes | a fsh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take away** | infinitive |  | the i |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **sound** | present | the i |  |  |  |  | like eye | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **become** | present | fish | fsh |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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:8`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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