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title: «EVERYONE in my class has got them» usually means a few children, pe… — Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics
description: «EVERYONE in my class has got them» usually means a few children, perhaps four out of thirty; the fair question is «who exactly?». Who acts: EVERYONE, fair question. A sentence of the lesson «Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole» of the language course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Dead, a mile long and everyone: more everyday hyperbole, sentence 9

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«EVERYONE in my class has got them» usually means a few children, perhaps four out of thirty; the fair question is «who exactly?».

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**Who acts:** EVERYONE, fair question · **What happens:** get, mean, be · **To what, where:** dead, few children · **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 (EVERYONE, fair question), 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:9
# text = «EVERYONE in my class has got them» usually means a few children, perhaps four out of thirty; the fair question is «who exactly?».
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
2	EVERYONE	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	parataxis	_	_
28	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | EVERYONE | dead |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  | a few children |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the fair question |  |  |  |  | exactly *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:9`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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