Idioms taken literally, sentence 13
"Pull someone's leg" means tease or trick them for fun.
What happens: pull, mean, tease, trick · To what, where: leg, lies · 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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 2 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | csubj |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 leg | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 someone | case |
| 5 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pull | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | tease | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | ccomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 trick | cc |
| 10 | trick | trick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tease | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 trick | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 fun | case |
| 13 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trick | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull in a quote | infinitive | someone's leg | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | tease | infinitive | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | trick | infinitive | lies = lie | for fun | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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:13.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
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