--- title: «Forever», «a thousand years» and «a bajillion hours» are not times… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: «Forever», «a thousand years» and «a bajillion hours» are not times you can measure; «bajillion» and «gazillion» are made-up words for «loads», not real numbers. Who acts: you. 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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 (you), 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:11 # text = «Forever», «a thousand years» and «a bajillion hours» are not times you can measure; «bajillion» and «gazillion» are made-up words for «loads», not real numbers. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Forever forever ADV RB _ 18 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 bajillion bajillion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 measure measure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 bajillion bajillion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nsubj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 gazillion gazillion NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 34 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 37 loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | | times | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **measure** | can | you | times *not said here* | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme time=Value | | 3 | **make up** | present · passive | | bajillion and gazillion | | | | | tree rules | 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:044-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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