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title: «I'm dead» and the skull emoji 💀 are young people's way of saying «t… — Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics
description: «I'm dead» and the skull emoji 💀 are young people's way of saying «this is hilarious». Who acts: way, dead, this. A sentence of the lesson «Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 6

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«I'm dead» and the skull emoji 💀 are young people's way of saying «this is hilarious».

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**Who acts:** way, dead, this · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, dead, this), 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:6
# text = «I'm dead» and the skull emoji 💀 are young people's way of saying «this is hilarious».
# 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): no change
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	emoji	emoji	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	💀	💀	SYM	SYM	_	9	appos	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	hilarious	hilarious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | young people's way *= way* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | dead and the skull emoji | young people's way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | young people's way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  |  | hilarious *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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