My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 6

A boast is a big claim about yourself, your family or your things, made to sound impressive; it is usually hyperbole, not a careful lie.

Who acts: boast, big claim, number · What happens: be, make, sound · To what, where: big claim, hyperbole

This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» 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 (boast, big claim, number), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boast	det
2	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 claim	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 claim	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 claim	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 claim	amod
6	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 yourself	case
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 claim	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 family	punct
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yourself	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 things	cc
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 things	nmod:poss
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 family	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 family	punct
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 claim	acl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sound	mark
18	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 made	xcomp
19	impressive	impressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sound	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 hyperbole	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hyperbole	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hyperbole	cop
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	24 hyperbole	advmod
24	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 claim	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lie	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 lie	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 lie	det
28	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lie	amod
29	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hyperbole	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 claim	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a boast	a big claim	about yourself	tree rules
2	make	participle		a big claim not said here		tree rules
3	sound	to-infinitive	a big claim not said here		impressive property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	present	number	hyperbole and a careful lie	usually 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:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:6.

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 ×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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