Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 11

«Forever», «a thousand years» and «a bajillion hours» are not times you can measure; «bajillion» and «gazillion» are made-up words for «loads», not real numbers.

Who acts: you · What happens: not be, measure, make up · To what, where: times, bajillion

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 (you), 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 Forever	punct
2	Forever	forever	ADV	_	18 times	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Forever	punct
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 years	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 years	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 years	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Forever	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 years	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hours	cc
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 hours	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hours	det
13	bajillion	bajillion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hours	nummod
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Forever	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 hours	punct
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 times	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 times	advmod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 measure	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 measure	aux
21	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 times	acl:relcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 times	punct
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 bajillion	punct
24	bajillion	bajillion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 made	nsubj
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 bajillion	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gazillion	cc
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 gazillion	punct
28	gazillion	gazillion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bajillion	conj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 gazillion	punct
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 times	conj
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 up	punct
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 made	compound:prt
34	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 made	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 loads	case
36	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 loads	punct
37	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 words	nmod
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 loads	punct
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 numbers	punct
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 real	advmod
41	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 numbers	amod
42	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 words	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 times	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	present		times	tree rules
2	measure	can	you	times not said here	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme time=Value
3	make up	present · passive		bajillion and gazillion	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:11.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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