Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 1

When Leo bursts in after school shouting «Mum I'm STARVING, I haven't eaten in like a hundred years», nobody counts a hundred years: he had lunch at twelve, and he simply means «I'm really hungry».

Who acts: Leo, nobody, I · What happens: burst in, shout, starve, not eat, count, have · To what, where: lunch, twelve · 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 (Leo, nobody, I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 bursts	mark
2	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bursts	nsubj
3	bursts	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 counts	advcl
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 bursts	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bursts	obl
7	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bursts	advcl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 STARVING	punct
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 STARVING	vocative
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 STARVING	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 STARVING	aux
12	STARVING	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 shouting	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eaten	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 eaten	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eaten	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 eaten	advmod
17	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 STARVING	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 years	case
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 years	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hundred	det
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eaten	obl
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 eaten	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 counts	punct
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 counts	nsubj
26	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 years	det
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 counts	obj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 counts	parataxis
33	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 twelve	case
35	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 had	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 means	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 means	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 means	nsubj
39	simply	simply	ADV	_	40 means	advmod
40	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 counts	conj
41	«	«	PUNCT	_	45 hungry	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 hungry	nsubj
43	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 hungry	cop
44	really	really	ADV	_	45 hungry	advmod
45	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 means	ccomp
46	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 means	punct
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 counts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst in	present	Leo			after school		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	gerund	Leo not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	starve in a quote	present · progressive	Leo				Mum vocative	tree rules
4	not eat in a quote	present · perfect	Leo			year		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	count	present	nobody			year		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
6	have	past	Leo	lunch	twelve			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient
7	mean	present	Leo				simply property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
8	is in a quote	present	I				hungry property	tree rules

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:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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