Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side, sentence 14

People can mix the kinds: «Oh yeah, I've ONLY told you a million times» uses sarcastic «only» (it's a lot) and hyperbolic «a million».

Who acts: People, Sarcasm, OPPOSITE · What happens: mix, tell, use, be · To what, where: kinds, you, lot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side» 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, Sarcasm, OPPOSITE), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mix	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mix	aux
3	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kinds	det
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mix	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 mix	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 mix	punct
8	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	14 told	discourse
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	14 told	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
12	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux
13	ONLY	only	ADV	_	14 told	advmod
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 mix	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 million	det
17	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 times	nummod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 told	obl:unmarked
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
20	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mix	parataxis
21	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 only	amod
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 only	punct
23	only	only	ADV	_	20 uses	obj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 only	punct
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 lot	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lot	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 lot	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 lot	det
29	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 only	appos
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 lot	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hyperbolic	cc
32	hyperbolic	hyperbolic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 only	conj
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	35 million	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 million	det
35	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hyperbolic	dep
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 million	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mix	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	mix	can	People	the kinds			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect	Sarcasm		you	time	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	use	present					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent only=Patient
4	is a	present	OPPOSITE	a lot			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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:14.

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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/52-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side/14/