Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 7

«I'm starving» three and a half hours after a full school lunch means «I'm quite hungry»; a piece of fruit until tea is the right-sized answer.

Who acts: piece, three half hours, Hyperbole · What happens: starve, mean, be, size · To what, where: sized answer · 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 (piece, three half hours, Hyperbole), 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	_	4 starving	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 starving	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 starving	aux
4	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 starving	punct
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 means	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 half	det
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 hours	compound
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 means	nsubj
11	after	after	ADP	_	15 lunch	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lunch	det
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lunch	amod
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lunch	compound
15	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	obl
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 starving	parataxis
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 hungry	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 hungry	nsubj
19	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hungry	cop
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 hungry	advmod
21	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	ccomp
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 hungry	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 starving	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 piece	det
25	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 answer	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 fruit	case
27	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 piece	nmod
28	until	until	ADP	_	29 tea	case
29	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fruit	nmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 answer	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 answer	det
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sized	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 right	punct
34	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 answer	amod
35	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starving	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 starving	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	starve in a quote	present · progressive	a piece of fruit until tea = piece				tree rules
2	mean	present	three half hours		after a full school lunch		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Hyperbole			hungry property	tree rules
4	size	participle					tree rules
5	be speech: assert	present	a piece of fruit until tea	the sized answer			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:7.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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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