Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 7
If someone really looks as if they cannot breathe — gasping, lips going blue, not laughing — you get an adult straight away.
Who acts: someone, dead, lips, you · What happens: look, not breathe, go, not laugh, get · To what, where: gasping, adult
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 (someone, dead, lips, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 looks | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 looks | advmod |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | advcl |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 breathe | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 breathe | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 breathe | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 breathe | advmod |
| 10 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 looks | advcl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 gasping | punct |
| 12 | gasping | gasping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breathe | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lips | punct |
| 14 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gasping | conj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 lips | acl |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 going | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughing | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 laughing | advmod |
| 19 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 going | conj |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 adult | det |
| 24 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 26 away | advmod |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not breathe | can | dead | gasping and lips | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gasping=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | lips not said here | blue property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not laugh | gerund | lips not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | present | you | a adult | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus |
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:7.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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