Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 6

Hyperbole is exaggeration on purpose: saying something is far bigger, longer, heavier or worse than it is, to show how you feel.

Who acts: Hyperbole, something, you · What happens: be, say, show, feel · To what, where: exaggeration, purpose · 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 (Hyperbole, something, 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	Hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exaggeration	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 exaggeration	cop
3	exaggeration	exaggeration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 purpose	case
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exaggeration	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 exaggeration	advcl
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 bigger	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bigger	cop
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 bigger	advmod
11	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 saying	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 longer	punct
13	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 bigger	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heavier	punct
15	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 bigger	conj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 worse	cc
17	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 bigger	conj
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 is	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 is	nsubj
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 worse	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 show	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 show	mark
23	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 exaggeration	advcl
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 feel	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 feel	nsubj
26	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 show	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 exaggeration	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Hyperbole	exaggeration	purpose		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Hyperbole not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	something			big, far property	tree rules
4	be		something not said here				tree rules
5	be		something not said here				tree rules
6	be		something not said here				tree rules
7	be	present	Hyperbole				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	show	to-infinitive	Hyperbole not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	feel	present	you				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.

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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): R5-strong ×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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