--- title: "This weighs a ton" is hyperbole: a ton is 1,000 kilograms, about as… — Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: "This weighs a ton" is hyperbole: a ton is 1,000 kilograms, about as much as a small car, and no school bag or box a child can carry weighs that. Who acts: This, ton, child, school bag. 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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 (This, ton, child, school bag), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:16 # text = "This weighs a ton" is hyperbole: a ton is 1,000 kilograms, about as much as a small car, and no school bag or box a child can carry weighs that. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 3 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 csubj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ton ton NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 hyperbole hyperbole NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ton ton NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 19 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 26 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl:relcl _ _ 34 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 35 that that PRON DT PronType=Dem 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** *in a quote* | present | This | a ton | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ton=Value | | 2 | **is a** | present | | hyperbole | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | a ton | 1,000 kilograms | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | can | a child | box *not said here* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | | 5 | **weigh** | present | no school bag or box | that | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme that=Value | 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:physics:042-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines.lesson:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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