--- title: A ton is about a thousand kilograms, as heavy as a small car; a heav… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: A ton is about a thousand kilograms, as heavy as a small car; a heavy school bag is perhaps five kilograms, so «it weighs a ton» means «it's too heavy». Who acts: ton, school bag, bag. 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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 (ton, school bag, bag), 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:9 # text = A ton is about a thousand kilograms, as heavy as a small car; a heavy school bag is perhaps five kilograms, so «it weighs a ton» means «it's too heavy». # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ton ton NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ton ton NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 32 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 too too ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 ton | thousand kilograms | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | a school bag | five kilograms | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **weigh** *in a quote* | present | bag | a ton | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ton=Value | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bag | | | | | heavy *property* | 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:9`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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