--- title: "I'm all ears" means "I'm listening carefully"; other body-part idio… — Idioms taken literally · tree and pragmatics description: "I'm all ears" means "I'm listening carefully"; other body-part idioms are "keep an eye on", "give someone a hand" and "a heart of gold". Who acts: lies, other part idioms. 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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 (lies, other part idioms), 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:16 # text = "I'm all ears" means "I'm listening carefully"; other body-part idioms are "keep an eye on", "give someone a hand" and "a heart of gold". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 12 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 idioms idiom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 29 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 30 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 iobj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | lies or nonsense *= lie* | all ears | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **listen** *in a quote* | present · progressive | lies or nonsense *= lie* | | | | | carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | other part idioms | | | | | keep *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | other part idioms *not said here* | a hand | someone | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient hand=Theme | 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:16`. **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): 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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/15/) - next →: [Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/)