Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 4
When you need the true size, look for the evidence: the clock, the scales, the worksheet, the phone.
Who acts: you · What happens: need, look · To what, where: true size
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 need | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 size | det |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 size | amod |
| 6 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 evidence | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 evidence | det |
| 11 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 clock | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clock | det |
| 14 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 evidence | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scales | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 scales | det |
| 17 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clock | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 worksheet | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 worksheet | det |
| 20 | worksheet | worksheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clock | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 phone | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 phone | det |
| 23 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clock | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | you | the true size | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot size=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | imperative | you not said here | for the evidence | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for evidence=Theme |
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:4.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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