--- title: «I'm so hungry I could eat a horse» is a fixed saying for «very hung… — Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: «I'm so hungry I could eat a horse» is a fixed saying for «very hungry»; nobody is eating a horse. Who acts: way, hungry, nobody. 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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 (way, hungry, nobody), 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:13 # text = «I'm so hungry I could eat a horse» is a fixed saying for «very hungry»; nobody is eating a horse. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 nsubj _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 22 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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** *in a quote* | present | young people's way *= way* | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | could | young people's way *= way* | a horse | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | | 3 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | hungry | a fixed saying | | | | for hungry | tree rules | | 5 | **eat** | present · progressive | nobody | a horse | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | 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:045-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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