Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 9

A ton is about a thousand kilograms, as heavy as a small car; a heavy school bag is perhaps five kilograms, so «it weighs a ton» means «it's too heavy».

Who acts: ton, school bag, bag · What happens: be, weigh, mean · To what, where: thousand kilograms, five kilograms, ton · 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 (ton, school bag, bag), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ton	det
2	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kilograms	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kilograms	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 thousand	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thousand	det
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 kilograms	nummod
7	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heavy	punct
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 heavy	advmod
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kilograms	amod
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 car	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 car	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 car	amod
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heavy	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 kilograms	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bag	det
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 school	amod
18	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bag	compound
19	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kilograms	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 kilograms	cop
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	22 five	advmod
22	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 kilograms	nummod
23	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kilograms	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 means	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	32 means	advmod
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 weighs	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 weighs	nsubj
28	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 means	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 ton	det
30	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 weighs	obj
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 weighs	punct
32	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kilograms	parataxis
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 heavy	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 heavy	nsubj
35	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 heavy	cop
36	too	too	ADV	_	37 heavy	advmod
37	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 means	ccomp
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 heavy	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kilograms	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a ton	thousand kilograms		tree rules
2	is a	present	a school bag	five kilograms		tree rules
3	weigh in a quote	present	bag	a ton		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ton=Value
4	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	bag		heavy property	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:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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