--- title: «A mountain of clothes» is a big messy pile; the size word is the te… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: «A mountain of clothes» is a big messy pile; the size word is the telling-off, so arguing «it's only knee-high» misses the point. Who acts: mountain, size word, arguing. 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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 (mountain, size word, arguing), 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:16 # text = «A mountain of clothes» is a big messy pile; the size word is the telling-off, so arguing «it's only knee-high» misses the point. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 3 nmod _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 messy messy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 telling telling NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 arguing argue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 26 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 misses miss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a mountain of clothes | a big messy pile | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the size word | the telling off | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | mountain | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **miss** | present | arguing | the point | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer point=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: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 ×1, R7-rel-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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