--- title: Hyperbole tells you how someone feels; a measurement (a sign, a cloc… — Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: Hyperbole tells you how someone feels; a measurement (a sign, a clock, a thermometer) tells you how big something really is. Who acts: Hyperbole, someone, measurement, something. 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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 (Hyperbole, someone, measurement, something), 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:17 # text = Hyperbole tells you how someone feels; a measurement (a sign, a clock, a thermometer) tells you how big something really is. # 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 ×1 1 Hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 6 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 measurement measurement NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 thermometer thermometer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 20 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 23 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ _ 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 23 nsubj _ _ 25 really really ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Hyperbole | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **feel** | present | someone | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a measurement | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | something | | | | | big *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:045-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:17`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dead, a mile long and everyone: more e…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/16/) - next →: [Which number counts? 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