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title: A silly impossible add-on like "Yeah, sure, and a pony too" means "n… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics
description: A silly impossible add-on like "Yeah, sure, and a pony too" means "no". Who acts: silly impossible add on. 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 13

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A silly impossible add-on like "Yeah, sure, and a pony too" means "no".

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**Who acts:** silly impossible add on · **What happens:** mean

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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 (silly impossible add on), 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:13
# text = A silly impossible add-on like "Yeah, sure, and a pony too" means "no".
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	add	add	NOUN	NN	_	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	on	on	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
9	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	sure	sure	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pony	pony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	18	obj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **mean** | present | a silly impossible add on like a pony |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Topic |

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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:13`.

**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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