Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 5

So a wise listener does two things: reads the feeling behind the big words, and checks the real evidence — the sign at the ride, the thermometer, a face that is laughing or a face that is going pale.

Who acts: wise listener, face · What happens: do, read, check, laugh, go · To what, where: two things, feeling, big words, real evidence

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 (wise listener, face), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 does	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 listener	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 listener	amod
4	listener	listener	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 things	nummod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 does	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 reads	punct
9	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 does	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feeling	det
11	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reads	obj
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 words	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 words	amod
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feeling	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 checks	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 checks	cc
18	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reads	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 evidence	det
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 evidence	amod
21	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 checks	obj
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	24 sign	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sign	det
24	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 evidence	appos
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 ride	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ride	det
27	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sign	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thermometer	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thermometer	det
30	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sign	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 face	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 face	det
33	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 thermometer	conj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 laughing	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 laughing	aux
36	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 face	acl:relcl
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 face	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 face	det
39	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 face	conj
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 going	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 going	aux
42	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 face	acl:relcl
43	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 going	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present	a wise listener	two things			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	read	present		the feeling	the big words		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic
3	check	present		the real evidence			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme
4	laugh	present · progressive	a face or a face				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	present · progressive	a face			pale property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:5.

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 ×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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