--- title: The same words can be real or not, depending on the scene: «Nice one… — Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side · tree and pragmatics description: The same words can be real or not, depending on the scene: «Nice one, Kai!» after a goal is praise, and after a dropped tray it is sarcasm. Who acts: same words, goal. 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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 (same words, goal), 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:5 # text = The same words can be real or not, depending on the scene: «Nice one, Kai!» after a goal is praise, and after a dropped tray it is sarcasm. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 depending depend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 16 Nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 22 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 after after ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 tray tray NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | the same words | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **depend** | gerund | | | | | | on the scene | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on scene=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a goal | | | | after praise | | tree rules | | 4 | **drop** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | goal | sarcasm | | | after a dropped tray | | 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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:5`. **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): R6-punct-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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