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title: When you need the true size, look for the evidence: the clock, the s… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics
description: When you need the true size, look for the evidence: the clock, the scales, the worksheet, the phone. Who acts: you. 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 
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# Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 4

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When you need the true size, look for the evidence: the clock, the scales, the worksheet, the phone.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** need, look · **To what, where:** true size

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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 (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:4
# text = When you need the true size, look for the evidence: the clock, the scales, the worksheet, the phone.
# 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	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	worksheet	worksheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | you | the true size |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot size=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the evidence | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for evidence=Theme |

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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.

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**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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