--- title: A pun is a joke built on a word with two meanings or on two words th… — Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense · tree and pragmatics description: A pun is a joke built on a word with two meanings or on two words that sound alike, like «tale» (a story) and «tail» (the end of an animal). Who acts: pun, two words. 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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 (pun, two words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:6 # text = A pun is a joke built on a word with two meanings or on two words that sound alike, like «tale» (a story) and «tail» (the end of an animal). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl 19 alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a pun | a joke and tale and tail | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | participle | | a joke and tale and tail *not said here* | | a word with two meanings or two words | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on word=Source | | 3 | **sound** | present | two words | | | | | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.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): R5-strong ×2, 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. 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