--- title: «My back's killing me» means it aches from work; pain that is very b… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: «My back's killing me» means it aches from work; pain that is very bad, sudden or does not go away is different, and the grown-up should see a doctor. Who acts: back, pain, grown up. A sentence of the lesson «Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole» of the language course of Mova's p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/44-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole/14/) [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/) / [Starving, a million times and a ton: e…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/44-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole/) / 14 # Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 14 «My back's killing me» means it aches from work; pain that is very bad, sudden or does not go away is different, and the grown-up should see a doctor. **Who acts:** back, pain, grown up · **What happens:** kill, mean, ache, be, not go, grow · **To what, where:** piece, doctor · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole» 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 (back, pain, grown up), 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:14 # text = «My back's killing me» means it aches from work; pain that is very bad, sudden or does not go away is different, and the grown-up should see a doctor. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 killing kill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 aches ache VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 31 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 33 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** *in a quote* | present · progressive | My back | a piece of fruit until tea *= piece* | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ache** | present | back | | | | | from work | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from work=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | pain | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | pain *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **go** | present · do-support | pain *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | present | pain | | | | | away, different *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **see** | should | the grown up | a doctor | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus | 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:14`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Starving, a million times and a ton: e…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/44-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole/12/) - next →: [Starving, a million times and a ton: e…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/44-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/44-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole/)