Idioms taken literally, sentence 11
In British football talk, "sick as a parrot" means very disappointed and "over the moon" means very happy.
Who acts: moon · What happens: mean
This is a sentence of the lesson «Idioms taken literally» 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 (moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 talk | case |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 talk | amod |
| 3 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | compound |
| 4 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sick | punct |
| 7 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 means | csubj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 parrot | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 parrot | det |
| 10 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sick | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sick | punct |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 disappointed | advmod |
| 14 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 means | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 means | cc |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 moon | punct |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 moon | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moon | det |
| 19 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 means | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 moon | punct |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 means | conj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 happy | advmod |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 means | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | in British football talk; disappointed property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in talk=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | the moon | happy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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, 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:025-idioms-taken-literally.lesson:11.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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