Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 16

«A mountain of clothes» is a big messy pile; the size word is the telling-off, so arguing «it's only knee-high» misses the point.

Who acts: mountain, size word, arguing · What happens: be, argue, miss · To what, where: big messy pile, telling off, point · 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 (mountain, size word, arguing), 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	_	11 pile	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mountain	det
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pile	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 clothes	case
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 mountain	nmod
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 mountain	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pile	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pile	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pile	amod
10	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pile	amod
11	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 off	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 word	det
14	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	compound
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 off	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 off	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 off	det
18	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 off	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 telling	punct
20	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pile	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 arguing	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 arguing	advmod
23	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 misses	csubj
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 high	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 high	nsubj
26	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 high	cop
27	only	only	ADV	_	30 high	advmod
28	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 high	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 knee	punct
30	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 arguing	ccomp
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 high	punct
32	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 off	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 point	det
34	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 misses	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pile	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a mountain of clothes	a big messy pile		tree rules
2	is a	present	the size word	the telling off		tree rules
3	argue speech: disagree	gerund				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	mountain		high property	tree rules
5	miss	present	arguing	the point		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer point=Stimulus

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: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 ×1, R7-rel-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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