Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★, sentence 4

People talk big and small too: «I've told you a million times» means many times, and «it's nothing, it's just a bit warm» about a swelling battery is a real danger played down.

Who acts: People, I, wheel, swelling battery · What happens: talk, tell, mean, be, play down · To what, where: you, nothing, real danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» of the technology 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 (People, I, wheel, swelling battery), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talk	nsubj
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	ccomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 small	cc
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 big	conj
6	too	too	ADV	_	2 talk	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
10	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 means	nsubj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 million	det
14	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 times	nummod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	obl:unmarked
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	parataxis
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 times	amod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 means	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 nothing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 nothing	cc
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 nothing	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 nothing	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 nothing	cop
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 means	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 warm	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 warm	nsubj
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 warm	cop
29	just	just	ADV	_	32 warm	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bit	det
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 warm	obl:unmarked
32	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	advcl
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 warm	punct
34	about	about	ADP	_	41 danger	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 battery	det
36	swelling	swelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 battery	compound
37	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 danger	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 danger	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 danger	det
40	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 danger	amod
41	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 means	conj
42	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 danger	acl
43	down	down	ADP	_	42 played	compound:prt
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	People					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect	I		you	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	mean	present				time		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	wheel	nothing				tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	wheel				a bit obl:unmarked; warm property	tree rules
6	is	present	a swelling battery				about a real danger	tree rules
7	play down	participle		a real danger not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:technology:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:4.

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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