--- title: The same word can be hyperbole or truth: «starving» after school lun… — ★★★ Olympiad: hyperbole and downplaying puzzles · tree and pragmatics description: The same word can be hyperbole or truth: «starving» after school lunch is hyperbole, but in a history book about a famine, where people had no food for weeks, it is literal. Who acts: same word, starving, people, food. 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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 (same word, starving, people, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.lesson:11 # text = The same word can be hyperbole or truth: «starving» after school lunch is hyperbole, but in a history book about a famine, where people had no food for weeks, it is literal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 starving starve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 13 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 famine famine NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl:relcl 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 35 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 literal literal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | can | the same word | hyperbole or truth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **starve** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | after school lunch | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | starving | hyperbole | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | people | no food | | | week | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | food | | | a history book about a famine | | literal *property* | tree rules | 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:055-olympiad-hyperbole-and-downplaying-puzzles.lesson:11`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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