--- title: In Scotland "Aye, right!" usually means "I don't believe you", even… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics description: In Scotland "Aye, right!" usually means "I don't believe you", even though "aye" means yes and "right" means correct. Who acts: Sarcasm, aye, right. 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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 (Sarcasm, aye, right), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:029-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice.lesson:10 # text = In Scotland "Aye, right!" usually means "I don't believe you", even though "aye" means yes and "right" means correct. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 029-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice.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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 4 Aye aye INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 right right INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 25 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 30 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 correct correct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | Scotland | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Sarcasm | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | aye | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | right | | | | | correct *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | 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:029-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice.lesson:10`. **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/). - ← previous: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/9/) - next →: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/)