--- title: A flat, bored voice with excited words is a sign of sarcasm; some pe… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics description: A flat, bored voice with excited words is a sign of sarcasm; some people find sarcasm harder to read, so explain kindly if they miss it. Who acts: flat bored voice, people. 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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 (flat bored voice, people), 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:15 # text = A flat, bored voice with excited words is a sign of sarcasm; some people find sarcasm harder to read, so explain kindly if they miss it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 excited excited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 18 sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 explain explain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 25 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 miss miss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a flat bored voice with excited words | a sign | | | | of sarcasm | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | present | some people | sarcasm | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sarcasm=Topic | | 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | some people *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | kindly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **miss** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | people | voice | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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): 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: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/14/) - next →: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/)