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title: In Canada a «toque» (say «took») is a woolly hat, and «eh» is often… — Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Canada a «toque» (say «took») is a woolly hat, and «eh» is often added to the end of a sentence; minus twenty degrees can hurt bare ears and fingers. Who acts: toque, minus twenty degrees. A sentence of the lesson «Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole» of the language course of
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# Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 12

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In Canada a «toque» (say «took») is a woolly hat, and «eh» is often added to the end of a sentence; minus twenty degrees can hurt bare ears and fingers.

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**Who acts:** toque, minus twenty degrees · **What happens:** say, take, be, add, hurt · **To what, where:** woolly hat, Canada, bare ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dead, a mile long and everyone: more 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 (toque, minus twenty degrees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:045-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:12
# text = In Canada a «toque» (say «took») is a woolly hat, and «eh» is often added to the end of a sentence; minus twenty degrees can hurt bare ears and fingers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 045-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-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): R2-punct-next ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	toque	toque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct
32	minus	minus	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
37	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a toque | a woolly hat |  | Canada |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  |  |  |  | to the end of a sentence | often *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to end=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **hurt** | can | minus twenty degrees | bare ears and fingers |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient |

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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): R2-punct-next ×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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