Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 17

Hyperbole tells you how someone feels; a measurement (a sign, a clock, a thermometer) tells you how big something really is.

Who acts: Hyperbole, someone, measurement, something · What happens: tell, feel, be · To what, where: you · 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 (Hyperbole, someone, measurement, something), 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	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feels	advmod
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 feels	nsubj
6	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	ccomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 feels	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 measurement	det
9	measurement	measurement	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tells	nsubj
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 sign	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sign	det
12	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 measurement	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clock	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 clock	det
15	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sign	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thermometer	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thermometer	det
18	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sign	conj
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 sign	punct
20	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	parataxis
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tells	iobj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 big	advmod
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tells	ccomp
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 big	nsubj
25	really	really	ADV	_	23 big	advmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 big	cop
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Hyperbole	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	feel	present	someone			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	present	a measurement	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	present	something		big 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:045-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:17.

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): 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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