--- title: If someone really looks as if they cannot breathe — gasping, lips go… — Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: If someone really looks as if they cannot breathe — gasping, lips going blue, not laughing — you get an adult straight away. Who acts: someone, dead, lips, you. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Dead, a mile long and everyone: more e…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/) / 7 # Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 7 If someone really looks as if they cannot breathe — gasping, lips going blue, not laughing — you get an adult straight away. **Who acts:** someone, dead, lips, you · **What happens:** look, not breathe, go, not laugh, get · **To what, where:** gasping, adult 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 (someone, dead, lips, you), 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:7 # text = If someone really looks as if they cannot breathe — gasping, lips going blue, not laughing — you get an adult straight away. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 3 really really ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 11 — - PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 gasping gasping NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 20 — - PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 straight straight ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **breathe** | can | dead | gasping and lips | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gasping=Theme | | 3 | **go** | gerund | lips *not said here* | | | | | blue *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **laugh** | gerund | lips *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | present | you | a adult | | | | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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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