Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side, sentence 17

Some true facts sound like hyperbole: scientists reported in 2014 that a blue whale's heart weighed about 180 kilograms, as much as two or three grown men.

Who acts: true facts, scientists, heart · What happens: sound, report, weigh, grow · To what, where: 2014, 180 kilograms

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 (true facts, scientists, heart), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 facts	det
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 facts	amod
3	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sound	nsubj
4	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 hyperbole	case
6	hyperbole	hyperbole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 reported	punct
8	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reported	nsubj
9	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 2014	case
11	2014	2014	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 reported	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 weighed	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 whale	det
14	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 whale	amod
15	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heart	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 whale	case
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 weighed	nsubj
18	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reported	ccomp
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 180	advmod
20	180	180	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 kilograms	nummod
21	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 weighed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 much	punct
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kilograms	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	30 men	case
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 men	nummod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 three	cc
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 two	conj
29	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 much	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sound	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	present	some true facts			like hyperbole	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	report	past	scientists		2014		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	weigh	past	a blue whale's heart	180 kilograms			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value
4	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:17.

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, R8-pos-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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