--- title: Sarcasm means saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock somethin… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics description: Sarcasm means saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock something or show annoyance; tone is the feeling in your voice. Who acts: Sarcasm, you, tone. 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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, you, tone), 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:6 # text = Sarcasm means saying the opposite of what you mean, to mock something or show annoyance; tone is the feeling in your voice. # 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 1 Sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nmod _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 mock mock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 annoyance annoyance NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Sarcasm | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | Sarcasm *not said here* | the opposite | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | you | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mock** | to-infinitive | Sarcasm *not said here* | something | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 5 | **show** | infinitive | Sarcasm *not said here* | annoyance | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent annoyance=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** | present | tone | the feeling | | your voice | | | 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:6`. **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. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/5/) - next →: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/)