--- title: Sarcasm means saying the opposite of what you mean to make a point,… — Late and early: being where you need to be on time · tree and pragmatics description: Sarcasm means saying the opposite of what you mean to make a point, like "glad you could join us" to someone who is late. Who acts: Sarcasm, you. A sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/20/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Late and early: being where you need t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/) / 20 # Late and early: being where you need to be on time, sentence 20 Sarcasm means saying the opposite of what you mean to make a point, like "glad you could join us" to someone who is late. **Who acts:** Sarcasm, you · **What happens:** mean, say, make, join, be · **To what, where:** opposite, point, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Late and early: being where you need to be on time» of the world 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 (Sarcasm, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:20 # text = Sarcasm means saying the opposite of what you mean to make a point, like "glad you could join us" to someone who is late. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 106-late-and-early-being-on-time.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sarcasm sarcasm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nmod _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 like like SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 21 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obl _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Sarcasm | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | Sarcasm *not said here* | the opposite | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | you | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a point | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset point=Product | | 5 | **join** *in a quote* | could | you | us | | | | to someone | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient to someone=Co-Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | late *property* | 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:world:106-late-and-early-being-on-time.lesson:20`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Late and early: being where you need t…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/19/) - next →: [Late and early: being where you need t…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/106-late-and-early-being-on-time/)