--- title: In texts there is no voice or face, so sarcasm is easily misundersto… — Sarcasm and tone of voice · tree and pragmatics description: In texts there is no voice or face, so sarcasm is easily misunderstood; tone tags like "/s" (sarcastic) and "/j" (joking) or emoji can help. Who acts: voice, tone tags. 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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, tone tags), 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:9 # text = In texts there is no voice or face, so sarcasm is easily misunderstood; tone tags like "/s" (sarcastic) and "/j" (joking) or emoji can help. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 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 14 advcl _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 11 sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 easily easily ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 misunderstood misunderstand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 16 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 tags tag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 / / SYM SYM _ 21 punct _ _ 21 s s NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 24 sarcastic sarcastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 / / SYM SYM _ 29 punct _ _ 29 j j NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 joking joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 emoji emoji NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - 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 or face | | | texts; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in text=Location | | 2 | **misunderstand** | present · passive | | sarcasm | | | | easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **help** | can | tone tags like s and sarcastic and j or emoji | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/8/) - next →: [Sarcasm and tone of voice, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/29-sarcasm-and-tone-of-voice/)