--- title: So when you hear a strange picture in another language, don't transl… — Told you a hundred times: how other languages ex… · tree and pragmatics description: So when you hear a strange picture in another language, don't translate it word for word: ask what feeling it carries. Who acts: you, language. 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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 (you, language), 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:7 # text = So when you hear a strange picture in another language, don't translate it word for word: ask what feeling it carries. # 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 So so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 translate translate VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 21 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 22 det _ _ 22 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | you | a strange picture | | another language | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **translate** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | language | | | | word for word *obl* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **carry** | present | language | what feeling | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=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:053-told-you-a-hundred-times-how-other-languages-exaggerate-and-play-down.lesson:7`. **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. 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