Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 17

When you need a real number, count or check: fifteen sums at about two minutes each take about half an hour, and a nan's «gazillion texts» can be counted on the phone.

Who acts: you, fifteen sums · What happens: need, check, take, count · To what, where: real number, gazillion texts, phone

This is a sentence of the lesson «Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole» of the language 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 (you, fifteen sums), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 need	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 number	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 number	amod
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 count	punct
8	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 number	appos
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 check	cc
10	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 count	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 sums	punct
12	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sums	nummod
13	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 take	nsubj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 minutes	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 two	advmod
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 minutes	nummod
17	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sums	nmod
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 minutes	det
19	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	parataxis
20	about	about	ADV	_	23 hour	advmod
21	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	23 hour	det:predet
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hour	det
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 texts	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 texts	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 nan	det
27	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 texts	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 nan	case
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 texts	punct
30	gazillion	gazillion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 texts	compound
31	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 counted	nsubj:pass
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 texts	punct
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 counted	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 counted	aux:pass
35	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 take	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 phone	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 phone	det
38	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 counted	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	need	present	you	a real number			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot number=Theme
2	check	infinitive	you not said here				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	take	present	fifteen sums at each two minutes			hour	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	count	can · passive		a nan's gazillion texts	the phone		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=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:language:044-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:17.

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, 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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