--- title: An idiom is a group of words whose meaning is not the meaning of its… — Idioms taken literally · tree and pragmatics description: An idiom is a group of words whose meaning is not the meaning of its separate words; you have to learn it as one whole piece, like a key that opens one door. Who acts: idiom, meaning, you, key. 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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 (idiom, meaning, you, key), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:025-idioms-taken-literally.lesson:0 # text = An idiom is a group of words whose meaning is not the meaning of its separate words; you have to learn it as one whole piece, like a key that opens one door. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 025-idioms-taken-literally.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): no change 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 idiom idiom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 acl:relcl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a idiom | a group | | | | of words | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | the meaning's meaning | the meaning | | | | of meaning's separate words | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | meaning | | | | as one whole piece; like a key | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **open** | present | a key | one door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 6 | **mean** | | the meaning | | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **word** | | meaning | | | | | | nom word «communication 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:language:025-idioms-taken-literally.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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: [Borrowed words from far away: Hindi, A…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/24-borrowed-words-from-far-away/16/) - next →: [Idioms taken literally, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/)