--- title: In British football talk, "sick as a parrot" means very disappointed… — Idioms taken literally · tree and pragmatics description: In British football talk, "sick as a parrot" means very disappointed and "over the moon" means very happy. Who acts: moon. A sentence of the lesson «Idioms taken literally» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/11/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Idioms taken literally](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/) / 11 # Idioms taken literally, sentence 11 In British football talk, "sick as a parrot" means very disappointed and "over the moon" means very happy. **Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** mean This is a sentence of the lesson «Idioms taken literally» of the language 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 (moon), 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:11 # text = In British football talk, "sick as a parrot" means very disappointed and "over the moon" means very happy. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 disappointed disappointed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:ccomp 24 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | in British football talk; disappointed *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in talk=Attribute | | 2 | **mean** | present | the moon | | | | | happy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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:11`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Idioms taken literally, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/10/) - next →: [Idioms taken literally, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/)