Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 2

The trick is to split what is said into two parts: the feeling, which is real, and the number or size, which is made up.

Who acts: trick, feeling · What happens: be, say, make up · To what, where: two parts, number · 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 (trick, feeling), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trick	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 split	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 split	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 split	mark
5	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux:pass
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 split	xcomp
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 parts	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 parts	nummod
11	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 feeling	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feeling	det
14	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 parts	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 real	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 real	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 real	cop
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feeling	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 number	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 number	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 number	det
22	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feeling	conj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 size	cc
24	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 number	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 made	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux:pass
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 number	acl:relcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 made	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 split	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the trick			split property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present · passive			two parts		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	is	present	the feeling and the number or size			real property	tree rules
4	make up	present · passive		the number or size			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

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:2.

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 ×1, R5-strong ×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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