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title: Using a child's full name and a sharp voice shows that a parent is s… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics
description: Using a child's full name and a sharp voice shows that a parent is serious or cross. Who acts: Using, parent, child. A sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm and tone of voice» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 12

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Using a child's full name and a sharp voice shows that a parent is serious or cross.

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**Who acts:** Using, parent, child · **What happens:** use, show, be, name · **To what, where:** full name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm and tone of voice» 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 (Using, parent, child), 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:12
# text = Using a child's full name and a sharp voice shows that a parent is serious or cross.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | a child's full name and a sharp voice |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 2 | **show** | present | Using |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | a parent |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a parent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** |  | a child |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:029-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice.lesson:12`.

**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): R6-punct-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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