--- title: Piling up words that mean the same thing (big, huge, enormous) does… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics description: Piling up words that mean the same thing (big, huge, enormous) does not add meaning; one well-chosen word is stronger. Who acts: words, Piling, one chosen word. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Piling, one chosen word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:8 # text = Piling up words that mean the same thing (big, huge, enormous) does not add meaning; one well-chosen word is stronger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Piling pile VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 16 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 19 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=18:punct 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:ExtPos=ADV 22 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 fixed _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 28 . . PUNCT . _ 18 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 | **pile up** | gerund | | words | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme word=Destination | | 2 | **mean** | present | words | the same thing | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 3 | **not** **add** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Piling | meaning | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient | | 4 | **choose** | participle | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | one chosen word | | | | | strong *property* | 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:english:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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