Idioms taken literally, sentence 12
The Ukrainian idiom "вішати локшину на вуха" (hang noodles on ears) means to tell someone lies or nonsense; to translate an idiom, find the matching idiom, not the matching words.
Who acts: Ukrainian idiom, lies · What happens: hang, mean, tell, translate, find · To what, where: noodles, ears, someone, idiom, matching idiom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ukrainian idiom, lies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 idiom | det |
| 2 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 idiom | amod |
| 3 | idiom | idiom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 вішати | punct |
| 5 | вішати | вішати | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 idiom | flat:foreign |
| 6 | локшину | локшину | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 вішати | flat:foreign |
| 7 | на | на | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 вішати | flat:foreign |
| 8 | вуха | вуха | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 вішати | flat:foreign |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 вішати | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 hang | punct |
| 11 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 idiom | appos |
| 12 | noodles | noodle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hang | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ears | case |
| 14 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hang | obl |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 hang | punct |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 tell | mark |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 means | xcomp |
| 19 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tell | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 nonsense | cc |
| 22 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lies | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 translate | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 translate | mark |
| 25 | translate | translate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 find | advcl |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 idiom | det |
| 27 | idiom | idiom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 translate | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tell | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 idiom | det |
| 31 | matching | matching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 idiom | compound |
| 32 | idiom | idiom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 find | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 words | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 words | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 words | det |
| 36 | matching | matching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 words | compound |
| 37 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 idiom | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | infinitive | noodles | ears | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent noodle=Theme on ear=Destination | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | the Ukrainian idiom | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | lies or nonsense | someone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | translate | to-infinitive | a idiom | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idiom=Patient | |||||
| 5 | find | infinitive | lies or nonsense not said here | the matching idiom and the matching words | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idiom=Topic |
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:12.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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