Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★, sentence 24
A hyperbole number such as "a million times" or "forever" is never the number to count; the real number in the text is.
Who acts: hyperbole number · What happens: not be, count, be · To what, where: number
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: reading between the lines ★★★» of the euphemisms 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 number), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 2 | hyperbole | hyperbole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 number | amod |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 is | nsubj |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 9 times | case |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 such | fixed |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 times | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 million | det |
| 8 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 times | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 number | cc |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 forever | punct |
| 13 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 9 times | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 forever | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 number | cop |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 number | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 number | det |
| 18 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 times | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 count | mark |
| 20 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 number | acl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 number | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 number | det |
| 23 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 number | amod |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 is | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 text | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 text | det |
| 27 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 number | nmod |
| 28 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a hyperbole number such million times or the number not said here | the number | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | count | to-infinitive | a hyperbole number such million times or the number not said here | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | present | a hyperbole number such million times or the number | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:euphemisms:042-olympiad-reading-between-the-lines.lesson:24.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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