--- title: A boast is a big claim about yourself, your family or your things, m… — My dad could lift a car: playground boasting · tree and pragmatics description: A boast is a big claim about yourself, your family or your things, made to sound impressive; it is usually hyperbole, not a careful lie. Who acts: boast, big claim, number. A sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/48-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting/6/) [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/) / [My dad could lift a car: playground bo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/48-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting/) / 6 # My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 6 A boast is a big claim about yourself, your family or your things, made to sound impressive; it is usually hyperbole, not a careful lie. **Who acts:** boast, big claim, number · **What happens:** be, make, sound · **To what, where:** big claim, hyperbole This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» 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 (boast, big claim, number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:6 # text = A boast is a big claim about yourself, your family or your things, made to sound impressive; it is usually hyperbole, not a careful lie. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boast boast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 impressive impressive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a boast | a big claim | | | | about yourself | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a big claim *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sound** | to-infinitive | a big claim *not said here* | | | | | impressive *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | present | number | hyperbole and a careful lie | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | 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:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.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): 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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