--- title: People can mix the kinds: «Oh yeah, I've ONLY told you a million tim… — Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side · tree and pragmatics description: People can mix the kinds: «Oh yeah, I've ONLY told you a million times» uses sarcastic «only» (it's a lot) and hyperbolic «a million». Who acts: People, Sarcasm, OPPOSITE. 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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 (People, Sarcasm, OPPOSITE), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:14 # text = People can mix the kinds: «Oh yeah, I've ONLY told you a million times» uses sarcastic «only» (it's a lot) and hyperbolic «a million». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.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 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 mix mix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:discourse 9 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 14 discourse _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:discourse 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 ONLY only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 sarcastic sarcastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 « « PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 20 obj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 hyperbolic hyperbolic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 dep _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix** | can | People | the kinds | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | Sarcasm | | you | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **use** | present | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent only=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | OPPOSITE | a lot | | | | | 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:052-sarcasm-hyperbole-and-understatement-side-by-side.lesson:14`. **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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