Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 0
Every language exaggerates and plays things down, but each one picks its own pictures.
Who acts: language, one · What happens: exaggerate, play down, pick · To what, where: things, own pictures
This is a sentence of the lesson «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» 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 (language, one), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 language | det |
| 2 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exaggerates | nsubj |
| 3 | exaggerates | exaggerate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 plays | cc |
| 5 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 exaggerates | conj |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plays | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 plays | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 picks | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 picks | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 picks | nsubj |
| 12 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 exaggerates | conj |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pictures | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pictures | amod |
| 15 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 picks | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exaggerates | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exaggerate | present | every language | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | play down | present | every language not said here | things | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pick | present | each one | language's own pictures | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient |
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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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