--- title: «Literally» is often used just to make words stronger, as in «I was… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: «Literally» is often used just to make words stronger, as in «I was literally flying»; people have used it like this for a long time, and it does not make the words true. Who acts: piece, people, ton. 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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 (piece, people, ton), 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:12 # text = «Literally» is often used just to make words stronger, as in «I was literally flying»; people have used it like this for a long time, and it does not make the words true. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Literally literally ADV RB _ 6 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 10 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:ExtPos=ADP 14 in in ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 literally literally ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 obl _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present · passive | | | | | | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | | words | | | | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset word=Product | | 3 | **fly** *in a quote* | past · progressive | a piece of fruit until tea *= piece* | | | | | literally *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **use** | present · perfect | people | ton | | | time | like this | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | ton | the words | | | | true *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material word=Product | 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: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): R7-rel-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. 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