--- title: Some true facts sound like hyperbole: scientists reported in 2014 th… — Sarcasm, hyperbole and understatement side by side · tree and pragmatics description: Some true facts sound like hyperbole: scientists reported in 2014 that a blue whale's heart weighed about 180 kilograms, as much as two or three grown men. Who acts: true facts, scientists, heart. 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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 (true facts, scientists, heart), 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:17 # text = Some true facts sound like hyperbole: scientists reported in 2014 that a blue whale's heart weighed about 180 kilograms, as much as two or three grown men. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 2014 2014 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 weighed weigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 180 180 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 as as ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 conj _ _ 29 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 31 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **sound** | present | some true facts | | | | | like hyperbole | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **report** | past | scientists | | | 2014 | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **weigh** | past | a blue whale's heart | 180 kilograms | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:17`. **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, 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. 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