--- title: Picture Ruby groaning, "I've practised this a million times and it s… — Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Ruby groaning, "I've practised this a million times and it still squeaks!" The million is hyperbole, so do not count it; the real clue is the squeak, which usually means blowing too hard or a gap under a finger. Who acts: you, Ruby, I, sound. 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The million is hyperbole, so do not count it; the real clue is the squeak, which usually means blowing too hard or a gap under a finger. **Who acts:** you, Ruby, I, sound, million, real clue · **What happens:** picture, groan, practise, squeak, be, not count · **To what, where:** hyperbole, sound, squeak · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» of the arts 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, Ruby, I, sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:041-olympiad-music-puzzles.lesson:3 # text = Picture Ruby groaning, "I've practised this a million times and it still squeaks!" The million is hyperbole, so do not count it; the real clue is the squeak, which usually means blowing too hard or a gap under a finger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 041-olympiad-music-puzzles.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Ruby ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 groaning groan VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 practised practise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 9 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 reparandum _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 squeaks squeak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 19 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 million million NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 squeak squeak NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 parataxis _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 38 usually usually ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 40 blowing blow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 ccomp _ _ 41 too too ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 46 under under ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 2 | **groan** | gerund | Ruby | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **practise** *in a quote* | present · perfect | I | | | | time | | tree rules | | 4 | **squeak** *in a quote* | present | sound | | | | still | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | the million | hyperbole | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **count** | infinitive · do-support | I *not said here* | sound | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | the real clue | the squeak or a gap under a finger | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **mean** | present | the squeak or a gap under a finger | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **blow** | gerund | | | | | | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | 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:arts:041-olympiad-music-puzzles.lesson:3`. **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): R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/2/) - next →: [Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/)