Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 0

People use the biggest words they know for everyday feelings: «I'm DEAD», «the queue's a mile long», «EVERYONE's got them», «I'll KILL you», «I'm melting», «I could eat a horse».

Who acts: People, I, EVERYONE · What happens: use, know, be, get, kill, melt · To what, where: biggest words, mile, People, you, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dead, a mile long and everyone: more 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 (People, I, EVERYONE), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 words	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 words	acl:relcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 feelings	case
9	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feelings	amod
10	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 know	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 «	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 DEAD	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 DEAD	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 DEAD	cop
15	DEAD	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 use	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 DEAD	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mile	punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 mile	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 queue	det
20	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mile	obl
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 mile	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mile	det
23	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	parataxis
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 mile	advmod
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 long	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
28	EVERYONE	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 got	nsubj
29	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 got	aux
30	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 use	parataxis
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	obj
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 KILL	punct
34	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 KILL	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 KILL	nsubj
36	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 KILL	aux
37	KILL	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	parataxis
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 KILL	obj
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 KILL	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 melting	punct
41	«	«	PUNCT	_	44 melting	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 melting	nsubj
43	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 melting	aux
44	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 KILL	advcl
45	»	»	PUNCT	_	44 melting	punct
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 eat	punct
47	«	«	PUNCT	_	50 eat	punct
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 eat	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 eat	aux
50	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 melting	parataxis
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 horse	det
52	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 eat	obj
53	»	»	PUNCT	_	50 eat	punct
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	People	the biggest words		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent word=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	know	present	People	the biggest words not said here	for everyday feelings	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	present	I		dead property	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present		a mile	the queue obl; long property	tree rules
5	get in a quote	present · passive	EVERYONE	People		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
6	kill in a quote	future	I	you		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	melt in a quote	present · progressive	I			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	eat in a quote	could	I	a horse		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

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:045-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:0.

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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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