--- title: Sarcasm exists in many languages: in Ukrainian "Чудово!" (wonderful)… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics description: Sarcasm exists in many languages: in Ukrainian "Чудово!" (wonderful) said in a flat, tired voice is sarcastic too. Who acts: Sarcasm. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Sarcasm and tone of voice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/) / 16 # Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 16 Sarcasm exists in many languages: in Ukrainian "Чудово!" (wonderful) said in a flat, tired voice is sarcastic too. **Who acts:** Sarcasm · **What happens:** exist, say, be · **To what, where:** many languages, flat tired voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Sarcasm), 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:16 # text = Sarcasm exists in many languages: in Ukrainian "Чудово!" (wonderful) said in a flat, tired voice is sarcastic too. # 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 ×5 1 Sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 exists exist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 10 Чудово Чудово PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 sarcastic sarcastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exist** | present | Sarcasm | | | many languages | | in Ukrainian | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in language=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | a flat tired voice | | sarcastic *property* | tree rules | 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:16`. **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 ×5. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/15/) - next →: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/)