Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 12
In Canada a «toque» (say «took») is a woolly hat, and «eh» is often added to the end of a sentence; minus twenty degrees can hurt bare ears and fingers.
Who acts: toque, minus twenty degrees · What happens: say, take, be, add, hurt · To what, where: woolly hat, Canada, bare ears · 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 (toque, minus twenty degrees), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Canada | case |
| 2 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hat | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 toque | det |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 toque | punct |
| 5 | toque | toque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hat | nsubj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 toque | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 toque | parataxis |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hat | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hat | det |
| 15 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hat | amod |
| 16 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 added | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 added | cc |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 eh | punct |
| 20 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 24 added | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 eh | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 added | aux:pass |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 added | advmod |
| 24 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hat | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 end | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 added | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sentence | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sentence | det |
| 30 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 end | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 hurt | punct |
| 32 | minus | minus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 degrees | amod |
| 33 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 degrees | nummod |
| 34 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hurt | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 hurt | aux |
| 36 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hat | conj |
| 37 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ears | amod |
| 38 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hurt | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fingers | cc |
| 40 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 ears | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a toque | a woolly hat | Canada | tree rules | |||
| 4 | add speech: assert | present · passive | to the end of a sentence | often property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to end=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | hurt | can | minus twenty degrees | bare ears and fingers | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=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:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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