--- title: «J'ai une faim de loup!» («I've got a wolf's hunger») is French for… — Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex… · tree and pragmatics description: «J'ai une faim de loup!» («I've got a wolf's hunger») is French for «I'm very hungry», where English says «I could eat a horse». Who acts: « faim de, English, loup, I. 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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 (« faim de, English, loup, I), 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:14 # text = «J'ai une faim de loup!» («I've got a wolf's hunger») is French for «I'm very hungry», where English says «I could eat a horse». # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 « « PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 2 J'ai J'ai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 une une X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ _ 4 faim faim NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 loup loup NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 15 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 « « PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 » » NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 31 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 ccomp _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:det 38 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:compound 39 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **loup** *in a quote* | | « faim de | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | English | a wolf's hunger | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | loup | | | | | for «; french *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | I | hungry » | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | present | English | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | could | English | a horse | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **hunger** *in a quote* | | a wolf | | | | | | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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