Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★, sentence 14
Hyperbole like "a billion mistakes" means "many", and understatement like "a slight problem" can hide a serious one.
Who acts: Hyperbole · What happens: mean, hide · To what, where: many, serious one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the ai course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hyperbole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hyperbole | hyperbole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 mistakes | case |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mistakes | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mistakes | det |
| 5 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 mistakes | nummod |
| 6 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hyperbole | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mistakes | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 many | punct |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 many | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 understatement | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 understatement | cc |
| 14 | understatement | understatement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | conj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 problem | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 problem | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 problem | det |
| 18 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 problem | amod |
| 19 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 understatement | nmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 problem | punct |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hide | aux |
| 22 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 means | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 one | det |
| 24 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 one | amod |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hide | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Hyperbole like a billion mistakes | many | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hide | can | Hyperbole like a billion mistakes not said here | a serious one | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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, 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:ai:032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.lesson:14.
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. 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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