--- title: Hyperbole (say it hy-PER-bo-lee) means making something sound much b… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: Hyperbole (say it hy-PER-bo-lee) means making something sound much bigger, longer or heavier than it really is, on purpose, to show a strong feeling. Who acts: Hyperbole, something. 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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 (Hyperbole, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:044-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:0 # text = Hyperbole (say it hy-PER-bo-lee) means making something sound much bigger, longer or heavier than it really is, on purpose, to show a strong feeling. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 044-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 3 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 hy hy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 PER PER PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 bo bo NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 lee lee NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 ccomp _ _ 15 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 17 much much ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:xcomp 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 20 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 conj _ _ 23 than than SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 really really ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 show show VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | Hyperbole | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | Hyperbole | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **make** | gerund | | something | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sound** | infinitive | something *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **be** | present | Hyperbole | | | purpose | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location | | 6 | **show** | to-infinitive | | a strong feeling | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient | 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. 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