--- title: Hyperbole is exaggeration on purpose: saying something is far bigger… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: Hyperbole is exaggeration on purpose: saying something is far bigger, longer, heavier or worse than it is, to show how you feel. Who acts: Hyperbole, something, you. 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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 (Hyperbole, something, 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:6 # text = Hyperbole is exaggeration on purpose: saying something is far bigger, longer, heavier or worse than it is, to show how you feel. # 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 ×2 1 Hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 exaggeration exaggeration NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 11 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ _ 18 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 20 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | Hyperbole | exaggeration | | purpose | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Hyperbole *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | something | | | | | big, far *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | something *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | something *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | something *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | present | Hyperbole | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **show** | to-infinitive | Hyperbole *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **feel** | present | you | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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. 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