--- title: «I'm starving» three and a half hours after a full school lunch mean… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: «I'm starving» three and a half hours after a full school lunch means «I'm quite hungry»; a piece of fruit until tea is the right-sized answer. Who acts: piece, three half hours, Hyperbole. 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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 (piece, three half hours, Hyperbole), 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:7 # text = «I'm starving» three and a half hours after a full school lunch means «I'm quite hungry»; a piece of fruit until tea is the right-sized answer. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 starving starve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 9 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 10 compound _ _ 10 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 quite quite ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 until until ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 sized size VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **starve** *in a quote* | present · progressive | a piece of fruit until tea *= piece* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | three half hours | | | | after a full school lunch | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Hyperbole | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **size** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | a piece of fruit until tea | the sized answer | | | | | 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:7`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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