Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 17

In Italian, «Ti voglio un sacco di bene» means «I love you very much»; «un sacco» (a sack) means «loads», like English «a ton».

Who acts: sacco bene, English, un · What happens: mean, love · To what, where: you, loads · 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 (sacco bene, English, un), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Italian	case
2	Italian	Italian	PROPN	_	6 voglio	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 voglio	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct
5	Ti	it	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 voglio	nsubj
6	voglio	voglio	X	_	8 sacco	flat:foreign
7	un	un	X	_	8 sacco	flat:foreign
8	sacco	sacco	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bene	compound
9	di	di	ADP	_	8 sacco	flat:foreign
10	bene	bene	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 means	nsubj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 bene	punct
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 love	nsubj
15	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 means	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 love	obj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	15 love	advmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
22	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	nsubj
23	sacco	sacco	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 un	appos
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 sacco	punct
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 sack	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sack	det
27	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sacco	appos
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 sack	punct
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 means	parataxis
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 loads	punct
31	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 means	obj
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 loads	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 English	case
35	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 means	obl
36	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 ton	punct
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 ton	det
38	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 English	appos
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	38 ton	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	sacco bene			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	present	English	you		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	mean	present	un	loads	like English	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic

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: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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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