Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 4

Because people exaggerate so often, it is easy to stop listening, and some of those words can be true: a person who really cannot breathe, or a grown-up with real chest pain, needs help at once.

Who acts: people, some, person · What happens: exaggerate, be, stop, listen, not breathe, grow up · To what, where: help

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, some, person), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 exaggerate	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 exaggerate	nsubj
3	exaggerate	exaggerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 easy	advcl
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 often	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	3 exaggerate	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 exaggerate	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 easy	expl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 easy	cop
9	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stop	mark
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 easy	csubj
12	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 true	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 true	cc
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 true	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 words	case
17	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 words	det
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 some	nmod
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 true	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 true	cop
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 easy	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 breathe	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 person	det
24	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 needs	nsubj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 breathe	nsubj
26	really	really	ADV	_	29 breathe	advmod
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 breathe	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 breathe	advmod
29	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 person	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 person	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 grown	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 up	det
33	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 person	conj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 up	punct
35	up	up	ADP	_	33 grown	compound:prt
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 pain	case
37	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pain	amod
38	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pain	compound
39	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grown	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 needs	punct
41	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	parataxis
42	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 needs	obj
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 once	case
44	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 needs	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 easy	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	present	people		often property	tree rules
2	is	present			easy property	tree rules
3	stop	to-infinitive				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	listen	gerund				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	is	can	some		true property	tree rules
6	not breathe	can	a person			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	grow up	participle	a person not said here		with real chest pain	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	need	present	a person	help		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

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:4.

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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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