--- title: Exaggeration that everyone knows is a joke, like lights «seen from s… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics description: Exaggeration that everyone knows is a joke, like lights «seen from space», is harmless fun. Who acts: everyone, Exaggeration. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Our street: feuds, newcomers and stori…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/) / 12 # Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 12 Exaggeration that everyone knows is a joke, like lights «seen from space», is harmless fun. **Who acts:** everyone, Exaggeration · **What happens:** know, be, see · **To what, where:** Exaggeration, joke, lights, space, harmless fun · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life 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 (everyone, Exaggeration), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:12 # text = Exaggeration that everyone knows is a joke, like lights «seen from space», is harmless fun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Exaggeration exaggeration NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 obj _ _ 3 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 nsubj _ _ 4 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | everyone | Exaggeration | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 2 | **be** *speech: other* | present | Exaggeration | a joke and harmless fun | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | participle | | lights *not said here* | | space | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | Exaggeration *not said here* | harmless fun | | | | | tree rules | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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