--- title: Memes and comedy can spark curiosity, but you need to know the real… — Memes, clips and jokes about politicians · tree and pragmatics description: Memes and comedy can spark curiosity, but you need to know the real story to understand the joke. Who acts: Memes, you. A sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics 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/politics/13-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians/19/) [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/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Memes, clips and jokes about politicians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/13-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians/) / 19 # Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 19 Memes and comedy can spark curiosity, but you need to know the real story to understand the joke. **Who acts:** Memes, you · **What happens:** spark, need, know, understand · **To what, where:** curiosity, real story, joke This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics 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 (Memes, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:19 # text = Memes and comedy can spark curiosity, but you need to know the real story to understand the joke. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.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): no change 1 Memes meme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 comedy comedy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 spark spark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 . . 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 | **spark** | can | Memes and comedy | curiosity | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition curiosity=Patient | | 2 | **need** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the real story | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | | 4 | **understand** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the joke | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joke=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:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:19`. **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): no change. **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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