Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 0
Hyperbole (say it hy-PER-bo-lee) means making something sound much bigger, longer or heavier than it really is, on purpose, to show a strong feeling.
Who acts: Hyperbole, something · What happens: say, mean, make, sound, be, show · To what, where: Hyperbole, something, purpose, strong feeling · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole» 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 (Hyperbole, something), 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 | Hyperbole | hyperbole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 lee | parataxis |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 say | obj |
| 5 | hy | hy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lee | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hy | punct |
| 7 | PER | PER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lee | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 PER | punct |
| 9 | bo | bo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lee | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 lee | punct |
| 11 | lee | lee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hyperbole | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 lee | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 means | ccomp |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 making | xcomp |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 bigger | advmod |
| 18 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 sound | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 longer | punct |
| 20 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 bigger | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 heavier | cc |
| 22 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 means | conj |
| 23 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 is | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 is | nsubj |
| 25 | really | really | ADV | _ | 26 is | advmod |
| 26 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 heavier | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 purpose | case |
| 29 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 is | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 show | punct |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 show | mark |
| 32 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 heavier | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 feeling | det |
| 34 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 feeling | amod |
| 35 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 show | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Hyperbole | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Hyperbole | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | something | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sound | infinitive | something not said here | big property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | be | present | Hyperbole | purpose | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location | ||||
| 6 | show | to-infinitive | a strong feeling | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient |
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:044-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:0.
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 ×3, R6-punct-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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