--- title: People talk big and small too: «I've told you a million times» means… — Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: People talk big and small too: «I've told you a million times» means many times, and «it's nothing, it's just a bit warm» about a swelling battery is a real danger played down. Who acts: People, I, wheel, swelling battery. 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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 (People, I, wheel, swelling battery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:4 # text = People talk big and small too: «I've told you a million times» means many times, and «it's nothing, it's just a bit warm» about a swelling battery is a real danger played down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 talk talk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 7 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 nsubj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 28 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 about about ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 swelling swelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 42 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 41 acl _ _ 43 down down ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | People | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | I | | you | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | time | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | wheel | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | wheel | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; warm *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | a swelling battery | | | | | about a real danger | tree rules | | 7 | **play down** | participle | | a real danger *not said here* | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:4`. **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, 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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