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title: Every language exaggerates and plays things down, but each one picks… — Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every language exaggerates and plays things down, but each one picks its own pictures. Who acts: language, one. A sentence of the lesson «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down, sentence 0

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Every language exaggerates and plays things down, but each one picks its own pictures.

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**Who acts:** language, one · **What happens:** exaggerate, play down, pick · **To what, where:** things, own pictures

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Told you a hundred times: how other languages exaggerate and play down» 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 (language, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:0
# text = Every language exaggerates and plays things down, but each one picks its own pictures.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.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): no change
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	exaggerates	exaggerate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **exaggerate** | present | every language |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play down** | present | every language *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **pick** | present | each one | language's own pictures |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient |

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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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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