--- title: In a text there is no voice to help, so if you can't tell, just ask. — Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side · tree and pragmatics description: In a text there is no voice to help, so if you can't tell, just ask. Who acts: voice, you. A sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» 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/52-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side/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, hyperbole and understatement…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/52-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side/) / 7 # Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side, sentence 7 In a text there is no voice to help, so if you can't tell, just ask. **Who acts:** voice, you · **What happens:** be, help, not tell, ask · **To what, where:** text · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» 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 (voice, you), 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:7 # text = In a text there is no voice to help, so if you can't tell, just ask. # 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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 5 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **be** | present | no voice | | | a text; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in text=Location | | 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | no voice *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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: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): R5-strong ×2. **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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