--- title: In Italian, «Ti voglio un sacco di bene» means «I love you very much… — Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex… · tree and pragmatics description: In Italian, «Ti voglio un sacco di bene» means «I love you very much»; «un sacco» (a sack) means «loads», like English «a ton». Who acts: sacco bene, English, un. 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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 (sacco bene, English, un), 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:17 # text = In Italian, «Ti voglio un sacco di bene» means «I love you very much»; «un sacco» (a sack) means «loads», like English «a ton». # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Italian Italian PROPN NNP _ 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 5 Ti it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 voglio voglio X FW _ 8 flat:foreign _ _ 7 un un X FW _ 8 flat:foreign _ _ 8 sacco sacco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 di di ADP IN _ 8 flat:foreign _ _ 10 bene bene NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 22 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 23 sacco sacco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 33 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ton ton NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | sacco bene | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **love** *in a quote* | present | English | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 3 | **mean** | present | un | loads | | | | like English | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic | 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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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