--- title: Sarcasm can sting, and some people (including many learners of Engli… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics description: Sarcasm can sting, and some people (including many learners of English and some autistic people) find it harder to spot, so when it matters, say plainly what you mean. Who acts: Sarcasm, people, it, you. 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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 (Sarcasm, people, it, you), 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:5 # text = Sarcasm can sting, and some people (including many learners of English and some autistic people) find it harder to spot, so when it matters, say plainly what you mean. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 9 including include ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 learners learner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 16 autistic autistic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 19 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 spot spot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 30 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 31 plainly plainly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 obj _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sting** | can | Sarcasm | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **find** | present | some people include many learners of English and some autistic people | voice | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 3 | **spot** | to-infinitive | some people include many learners of English and some autistic people *not said here* | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **matter** | present | it | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | some people include many learners of English and some autistic people *not said here* | | | | | plainly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | you | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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:5`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/4/) - next →: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/)