--- title: In a text message there is no voice or face, so «great, that took fo… — Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side · tree and pragmatics description: In a text message there is no voice or face, so «great, that took forever» could be real relief or sarcasm; it is fine to ask «u annoyed or just joking?», and tone tags like «/j» (joking) can help. Who acts: voice, that, 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, that, tone tags), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:16 # text = In a text message there is no voice or face, so «great, that took forever» could be real relief or sarcasm; it is fine to ask «u annoyed or just joking?», and tone tags like «/j» (joking) can help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 8 det _ _ 8 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 16 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj _ _ 17 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 forever forever ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 relief relief NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 u you PRON PRP Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:parataxis 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 just just ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 joking joke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advcl 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct 40 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 tags tag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 nsubj _ _ 44 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 « « PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 46 / / PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct 47 j J NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 49 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 50 joking joke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 appos _ _ 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 50 punct _ _ 52 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 53 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | no voice or face | | | a text message; there | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | past | that | | | | | forever *property* | vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 3 | **is a** | could | | real relief or sarcasm | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **joke** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **help** | can | tone tags and j » | | | | | | 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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:16`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. 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