--- title: Mum's «I've told you a MILLION times» has a made-up number, but she… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: Mum's «I've told you a MILLION times» has a made-up number, but she really is cross. Who acts: Leo, «. A sentence of the lesson «Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 3 Mum's «I've told you a MILLION times» has a made-up number, but she really is cross. **Who acts:** Leo, « · **What happens:** tell, have, make up, be · **To what, where:** you, made number, cross · **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 (Leo, «), 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:3 # text = Mum's «I've told you a MILLION times» has a made-up number, but she really is cross. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 « « NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 MILLION million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=14:compound 17 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 really really ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | Leo | | you | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 2 | **have** | present | Mum's « | a made number | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 3 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | « | cross | | | | | 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:3`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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