--- title: The Ukrainian idiom "вішати локшину на вуха" (hang noodles on ears)… — Idioms taken literally · tree and pragmatics description: The Ukrainian idiom "вішати локшину на вуха" (hang noodles on ears) means to tell someone lies or nonsense; to translate an idiom, find the matching idiom, not the matching words. Who acts: Ukrainian idiom, lies. A sentence of the lesson «Idioms taken literally» of the language course of Mova's prim --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Idioms taken literally, sentence 12 The Ukrainian idiom "вішати локшину на вуха" (hang noodles on ears) means to tell someone lies or nonsense; to translate an idiom, find the matching idiom, not the matching words. **Who acts:** Ukrainian idiom, lies · **What happens:** hang, mean, tell, translate, find · **To what, where:** noodles, ears, someone, idiom, matching idiom · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ukrainian idiom, lies), 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:12 # text = The Ukrainian idiom "вішати локшину на вуха" (hang noodles on ears) means to tell someone lies or nonsense; to translate an idiom, find the matching idiom, not the matching words. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Ukrainian ukrainian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 3 idiom idiom NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 5 вішати вішати X FW Foreign=Yes 3 flat:foreign _ _ 6 локшину локшину X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 7 на на X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 8 вуха вуха X FW Foreign=Yes 5 flat:foreign _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 appos _ _ 12 noodles noodle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 iobj _ _ 20 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 translate translate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 idiom idiom NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 matching matching NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 idiom idiom NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 matching matching NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | infinitive | | noodles | | ears | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent noodle=Theme on ear=Destination | | 2 | **mean** | present | the Ukrainian idiom | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lies or nonsense | | someone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | | 4 | **translate** | to-infinitive | | a idiom | | | | | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idiom=Patient | | 5 | **find** | infinitive | lies or nonsense *not said here* | the matching idiom and the matching words | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idiom=Topic | 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:12`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Idioms taken literally, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/11/) - next →: [Idioms taken literally, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/)