--- title: Some exaggeration is just fun when everyone is in on the joke — «the… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics description: Some exaggeration is just fun when everyone is in on the joke — «the Coopers' Christmas lights can be seen from space». Who acts: exaggeration, everyone, Coopers. 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 --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 7 Some exaggeration is just fun when everyone is in on the joke — «the Coopers' Christmas lights can be seen from space». **Who acts:** exaggeration, everyone, Coopers · **What happens:** be, see, light · **To what, where:** joke, Christmas lights, space · **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 (exaggeration, everyone, Coopers), 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:7 # text = Some exaggeration is just fun when everyone is in on the joke — «the Coopers' Christmas lights can be seen from space». # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 exaggeration exaggeration NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 7 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 12 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ _ 13 — - PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Coopers cooper PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 17 ' 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is** | present | some exaggeration | | | | | fun *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | everyone | | | the joke | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | can · passive | | the Coopers's Christmas lights | | space | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **light** *in a quote* | | the Coopers | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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](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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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