--- title: «My feet are about to drop off» after a twelve-hour shift means they… — Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: «My feet are about to drop off» after a twelve-hour shift means they ache badly and she is worn out, not that her feet are coming off. Who acts: feet. 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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 (feet), 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:15 # text = «My feet are about to drop off» after a twelve-hour shift means they ache badly and she is worn out, not that her feet are coming off. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 csubj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 shift shift NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 ache ache VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 32 off off ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | My feet | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **drop off** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | My feet *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | after a hour shift | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **ache** | present | feet *= foot* | | | | | badly *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **wear out** | present · passive | | horse | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | | 6 | **not** **come off** | present · progressive | horse's feet | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | 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:15`. **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): 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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