--- title: To spot sarcasm, check whether the words fit the situation and the t… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics description: To spot sarcasm, check whether the words fit the situation and the tone; if they don't fit, it may be sarcasm. Who acts: words, Tone. 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Sarcasm and tone of voice, sentence 7 To spot sarcasm, check whether the words fit the situation and the tone; if they don't fit, it may be sarcasm. **Who acts:** words, Tone · **What happens:** spot, check, fit, not fit, be · **To what, where:** sarcasm, situation 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 (words, 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:7 # text = To spot sarcasm, check whether the words fit the situation and the tone; if they don't fit, it may be sarcasm. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 spot spot VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 situation situation NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spot** | to-infinitive | | sarcasm | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sarcasm=Destination | | 2 | **check** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fit** | present | the words | the situation and the tone | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Patient | | 4 | **not** **fit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | words *= word* | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | may | Tone | sarcasm | | | | | 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:7`. **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): 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/6/) - next →: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/)