Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 7

So when you hear a strange picture in another language, don't translate it word for word: ask what feeling it carries.

Who acts: you, language · What happens: hear, not translate, ask, carry · To what, where: strange picture, language, feeling · 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 (you, language), 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	So	so	ADV	_	14 translate	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 hear	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 translate	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 picture	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 picture	amod
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 language	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 language	det
10	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 translate	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 translate	advmod
14	translate	translate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 translate	obj
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 translate	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 word	case
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 word	nmod
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 translate	parataxis
21	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	22 feeling	det
22	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carries	obj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 carries	nsubj
24	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ask	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 translate	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	you	a strange picture	another language		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus
2	not translate	imperative · do-support	you not said here	language		word for word obl	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	carry	present	language	what feeling			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:7.

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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