Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 1

An English mum has told you «a million times», a Spanish mum «a thousand times» (mil veces), a Ukrainian mum «a hundred times» (сто разів, sto raziv).

Who acts: English mum · What happens: tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (English mum), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mum	det
2	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mum	amod
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 times	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 million	det
9	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 times	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mum	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mum	det
14	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mum	amod
15	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	conj
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 times	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thousand	det
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 times	nummod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mum	nmod:unmarked
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 times	punct
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 veces	punct
22	mil	mil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 veces	compound
23	veces	vez	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 times	parataxis
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 veces	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mum	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 mum	det
27	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mum	amod
28	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	conj
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 times	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 times	det
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 times	nummod
32	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mum	appos
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 times	punct
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 разів	punct
35	сто	сто	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	36 разів	nmod
36	разів	разів	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 times	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 raziv	punct
38	sto	sto	X	_	39 raziv	compound
39	raziv	raziv	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 разів	conj
40	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 разів	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	a English mum and a Spanish mum thousand times and a Ukrainian mum		you		time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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:1.

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 ×3. 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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