--- title: So a wise listener does two things: reads the feeling behind the big… — Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: So a wise listener does two things: reads the feeling behind the big words, and checks the real evidence — the sign at the ride, the thermometer, a face that is laughing or a face that is going pale. Who acts: wise listener, face. 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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 (wise listener, face), 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:5 # text = So a wise listener does two things: reads the feeling behind the big words, and checks the real evidence — the sign at the ride, the thermometer, a face that is laughing or a face that is going pale. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 listener listener NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 behind behind ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 — - PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 thermometer thermometer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | a wise listener | two things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 2 | **read** | present | | the feeling | | the big words | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Topic | | 3 | **check** | present | | the real evidence | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | | 4 | **laugh** | present · progressive | a face or a face | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go** | present · progressive | a face | | | | | pale *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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:5`. **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, 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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