--- title: In texts there is no voice and no face, so sarcasm is easy to misrea… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics description: In texts there is no voice and no face, so sarcasm is easy to misread; that is why people add emoji or tone tags like "/s" for sarcastic and "/j" for joking. Who acts: voice, sarcasm, that, 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 (voice, sarcasm, that, 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:4 # text = In texts there is no voice and no face, so sarcasm is easy to misread; that is why people add emoji or tone tags like "/s" for sarcastic and "/j" for joking. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 3 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 4 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 misread misread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl:relcl _ _ 23 emoji emoji NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 tags tag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 / / SYM , _ 30 compound _ _ 30 s s NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 sarcastic sarcastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 36 / / SYM , _ 37 compound _ _ 37 j j NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 for for SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 joking joke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | no voice and no face | | | texts; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in text=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | sarcasm | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **misread** | to-infinitive | sarcasm *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | people | emoji or tone | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/3/) - next →: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/)