Idioms taken literally, sentence 16
"I'm all ears" means "I'm listening carefully"; other body-part idioms are "keep an eye on", "give someone a hand" and "a heart of gold".
Who acts: lies, other part idioms · What happens: be, mean, listen, give · To what, where: ears, hand, someone · 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 (lies, other part idioms), 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 | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ears | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ears | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 ears | det |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 means | ccomp |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ears | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 listening | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 listening | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 listening | aux |
| 11 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 means | ccomp |
| 12 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 11 listening | advmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 listening | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 keep | punct |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 idioms | amod |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 part | punct |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 idioms | compound |
| 19 | idioms | idiom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 keep | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 keep | cop |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 keep | punct |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 eye | det |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 keep | compound:prt |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 keep | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 give | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 give | punct |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 keep | conj |
| 30 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 give | iobj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 hand | det |
| 32 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 give | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 heart | cc |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 heart | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 heart | det |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 gold | case |
| 39 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 heart | nmod |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 heart | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | lies or nonsense = lie | all ears | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | listen in a quote | present · progressive | lies or nonsense = lie | carefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | other part idioms | keep property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | other part idioms not said here | a hand | someone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient hand=Theme |
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:16.
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 ×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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