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title: Perfect beach weather"; the rain, his face and his tired voice tell… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics
description: Perfect beach weather"; the rain, his face and his tired voice tell you he is not happy at all. Who acts: Dad, Perfect beach weather. 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 2

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Perfect beach weather"; the rain, his face and his tired voice tell you he is not happy at all.

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**Who acts:** Dad, Perfect beach weather · **What happens:** weather, tell, not be · **To what, where:** you, all · **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 (Dad, Perfect beach weather), 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:2
# text = Perfect beach weather"; the rain, his face and his tired voice tell you he is not happy at all.
# 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	Perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weather** |  | Dad |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Perfect beach weather and the rain and Dad's face and Dad's tired voice |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | all |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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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