--- title: Because people exaggerate so often, it is easy to stop listening, an… — Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: Because people exaggerate so often, it is easy to stop listening, and some of those words can be true: a person who really cannot breathe, or a grown-up with real chest pain, needs help at once. Who acts: people, some, person. 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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 (people, some, person), 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:4 # text = Because people exaggerate so often, it is easy to stop listening, and some of those words can be true: a person who really cannot breathe, or a grown-up with real chest pain, needs help at once. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 exaggerate exaggerate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 expl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 csubj _ _ 12 listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 22 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 26 really really ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det 33 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=33:compound 36 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 42 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **exaggerate** | present | people | | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **listen** | gerund | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | can | some | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **breathe** | can | a person | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **grow up** | participle | a person *not said here* | | | | | with real chest pain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **need** | present | a person | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:4`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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